‘De-Americanize’: How China Is Remaking Its Chip Business

There is not a single person in existence, who would reasonably (or otherwise) insist that China should not have their own domestic, organically developed semiconductor industry.

When you see initiatives such as described in this article (started with Trump, subsequently expanded by Biden), it is in response to the theft of intellectual property which, in the aggregate, likely exceeds a total value in the trillions of USD. This includes a wide range of activities, ranging from dishonest business practices (that refuse equal market access, then make forced intellectual property transfers a condition of every business deal) and gaming the system through a domestic court system that is inherently biased against foreign corporations (and manipulates the system at every level, including such exotic things as preemptive lawsuits whose objective is to prevent intellectual property lawsuits brought against infringers; or allowing IP violations claims to linger in courts for years, until so much time has passed that the object of the violation has been fully monetized), all the way to spear phishing attacks and massive theft of military technologies, valued at hundreds of billions/trillions of dollars and obtained after investing tens/hundreds of thousands of manhours involving SME-related skills and knowledge.

When, as a consequence of all this, Trump and Biden go through said lengths to make some attempt at protecting American IP, it isn't a case of malice, or inherent bad faith targeted at innocents; rather, it is the rational reaction that seeks to protect itself against a bad faith actor, whose participation has been marked by malicious intent since the day it was admitted into the trade organization.