There's probably plenty of bias, but a large part of the China2025 plan is to achieve dominance in semiconductors. Since the domestic chip industry needs to catch up and the intelligence services are not above IP theft, this isn't surprising to me.
By 2025 they might figure out newer processes than 14nm, but even Intel and Global Foundries has hit a wall at 14nm. Samsung, TSMC and IBM are the only companies with productive sub-14nm fabs.
Which is a fascinating lever from a global politics point of view. People theorize that the US might not come to Taiwan's aid, but how could we not? That fab seems too important a chess piece to surrender willingly.
IBM no longer has fabs. They sold theirs to GlobalFoundries a few years ago.