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two facts that may convince you that USA sees next-gen chips as a moat for military AI tech:

1. US blocked ASML from selling its EUV machines to China ( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-05/us-pushin... )

2. US called back all US citizens working in microchip industry in China: to either leave China and come back to the USA or lose citizenship ( https://www.outlookindia.com/international/explained-how-ame... )

This is about maintaining long-term leader position in military technology of which AI is a big part

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That is a different conclusion to what you stated in your first comment. You've retreated to a motte ('The US is restricting transfer of chip technology to China for strategic purposes, a large part of which is due to AI and military applications of fast compute'), from your bailey ("The only reason the US wishes to defend Taiwan is because of the military use of the chips produced there"). The comment disagreeing was only disagreeing with the latter statement and contains nothing contradicting the first.

"All" US citizens, no. Naturalized citizens, most of whom were born in China and naturalized on the basis that it would be good for America; so, if you're working on things that are contrary to American interests, you risk losing your recently-gained citizenship.

The US couldn't revoke citizenship from someone who was born a citizen, for example.

That means there are two classes of citizens and the law doesn’t really like to make that explicit and is horrible

I think there is a western country that has a law effectively saying if a person has dual nationality and they commit a horrible crime, that person can be stripped of their citizenship which makes citizens equal

I'm not saying it's "right", just how it is; it's that way (or worse) in many places.

Pretty sure that in the cases where it matters, the law does make the distinction between a naturalized citizen, and a jus soli/sanguinis citizen.

> This is about maintaining long-term leader position in military technology of which AI is a big part.

Yes, but this is part of the strategy to contain CCP while competing with it, deterring it from trying to take over Taiwan, preventing another Ukraine, which could be costly even if the war is won.

The strategy to compete with CCP, instead of co-operating (as a factory of the World and a reliable trade partner), became mainstream since 2018 or so, when CCP show that it wanted to challenge the current world order (see the China 2049 Initiative by Xi).

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