> Somebody for sure is willing to sell general purpose chips to China second hand at a more expensive price.

The US is stopping people from selling high tech chips to China. Have you not heard of this policy?

I tenat to agree that Xi Jing Ping is distracted with retaining power like all the other democractic polticians are. Instead of left vs rights, its ultra left-ist faction against faction, corruption and profiteering in the CCP is rife. Every day enough figure gets sent to death it would seem after falling out of favour.