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With the trade war and "national security" posture the US is doing its very best to stimulate China to become self-sufficient.

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China was already doing that. One of the aims of the trade war is trying to slow them down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025

Good. I'm not convinced that a unipolar world is a good thing. As long as open war does not occur, some national rivalry stimulates innovation just as corporate competition does. A unipolar world is like a stagnant monopoly in the business sphere. Politically you can see the effect in any one party US state (regardless of party). The party in power gets corrupt and incompetent.

Maybe China vs USA will put humanity on Mars.

Russia also producing their own CPUs recently. They are not very competitive in consumer space, but they are not ridiculously expensive either. It's awesome to see more competition.

Producing CPU (and chips in general) are rightfully seen by all of these countries as a national security imperative.

China was stealing enough tech to do that. Also, self sufficiency was already a long term strategic goal, thus the tech stealing. It forces the issue, but hardly changes the calculus.

Previous it is a cherry-on-top, now self sufficiency is their life line. A day and night difference.

But I guess those days will arrive no matter what, as semiconductor ended its exponential growth era, the West can't have an edge forever, no matter how hard they try.

let's see what will happen when there is nothing to steal :-)

That's the same line they used on the US, Germany, and Japan when each was bootstrapping their high skill economy.

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