The sad thing is, there is >0% chance that CCP will invade Taiwan one day using the weapon that TSMC help them build.
Serious question. I wouldn't even know how to approach it. China is the world's factory - throw a dart at a random non-food storefront, and anything it hits was almost surely made entirely or in part in China. Hell, a quite a lot of locally-made products get packaged in China. I personally know of local producers in Poland that send their products to China to be packaged there and sent back - it turns out it's much cheaper to do that, even accounting for multi-month round trip on a container ship, than to pay locals to do the packaging...
Not sure where I saw them say
> I don't buy Chinese-made products
As already asked, what point are you trying to make?
It appeared to me as if you were making an attack on the sentiment of reducing Chinese purchases, because the replier obviously can't be avoiding Chinese brands completely because he uses a mobile phone.
And yes, it is nigh impossible to escape unless we are willing to live as we did 100+ years ago
Have a good day.
That's why.
The US government in the 70's, 80's, and especially 90's should've known that the CCP was playing a game and a long game at that. No doubt they had surveillance on high level communications.
Knowing they were playing the long game, they should've had strict laws that were basically limiting the US 1 for 1.
ex. For every US student that studies PhD in China, one Chinese student can come here.
What happened was that thousands of Chinese learned about the highest levels of physics and technology at our universities and then used that information back in China to build hypersonic missiles that will be used to destroy our carrier fleets in a few years. As well as medium range missiles to destroy Taiwan.
Technology was stolen at times, copied or given. Students studing in the US are not the cause. If that were the case the Saudi's would be on the same level / India included.
One student studying in China to one student in the US sounds like a bad deal. If the US education system is better shouldn't it be two to one?
Besides the money charged to foreign students (which is very high) helps pay for US students and keeps those fees lower.
Now if the ask was no ivy or tier I schools because of a shortage of space and crazy demand. I could come around.
2. Colleges are expensive because they go carte Blanche. If they kept costs down by cutting frivolous positions, they could be sustainable.
They were blinded by their ideology, which told them that capitalism is inseparable from freedom and democracy. And bringing the first to China would bring the other 2 as well.
> For every US student that studies PhD in China, one Chinese student can come here.
Were there a lot of US students lining up to go to Chinese universities in the 70s and 80s? How would that even work?
> thousands of Chinese learned about the highest levels of physics and technology at our universities
If they could learn it at universities, was it really all that secret?
2. No. That’s the point. They got all the knowledge transfer benefits and we got some tuition money (who cares).
3. You think studying a PhD in physics at MIT or a large CA State institution is gonna be commonplace knowledge? I’m not talking about undergrad or even grad stuff.