The RISC-V move was laughable. It’s still US tech, developed largely with DARPA funds.
> Open source standards provide great benefits to U.S. taxpayers in reducing the cost of advanced military system development, and also increases security by allowing the government to build their own trusted implementations at low cost.
About their move to Switzerland, they say:
> RISC-V International has not incorporated in Switzerland based on any one country, company, government, or event. This move is reflective of community concern and managing strategic risk for our community investing in RISC-V for the next 50+ years.One is the mirror image of the other and neither economy can exist in its current state in isolation.
So China has the US over a barrel when it comes to actually building stuff, rare earths and all of that, but equally US sanctions still have real bite (a lot more than China would like) because China does have to do a huge amount of international trade to export and externalise its surpluses.
They're stuck in this unhappy marriage
Who says they’re stuck or unhappy?
This is politics. We’re all just bait. In reality they’re friends.
US and China have made more gains by pretending to be enemies than friends and they likely plotted it all together.