banning them from buying components from the USA is going to encourage them to develop it themselves. stuff like this is how we lose our edge in tech, if we haven't lost it already.
Canada/Nortel might disagree with that somewhat...
Canada is nice and all but China has a Japan-level quality of human capital and an enormous population. Anything we can do they will be able to do, and probably better. Absent crazy stuff like AGI or genetic engineering changing the source of innovation, China will become the leader in high technology.
China does not have Japan-level human capital. Even if it did, the 'Japanese miracle' lasted for barely two decades.
I was referring to the infamous Nortel IP theft and other cases.
All countries need to push tech, but how long can they make the surge last? All populations are rapidly aging and they'll have no choice but to innovate and use their scarce human capital to engineer. If China doesn't do the 996 schedule or worse like Japan's, the smart people may go home enough to maybe have kids.
Hopefully it will be more open source friendly. Some US industries are just plain anti-FOSS, like electronics and chip design for example.
Here's to hoping that RISC-V takes off in a big way over the next decade. AMD and Intel's cross licensing agreement has essentially created a duopoly in this space.