World needs multilateral chip tech export bans to hurt China – think tank Sanctions on transfer of chipmaking tech to China might be driving more offshore chipmaking, and therefore failing to achieve strategic goals. That argument is the central theme of a policy brief titled Preserving the Chokepoints, by the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University. The document has no …
eh, no. but I think you are "not wrong" about some of this, in that the U.S. is using "its might" to prevent things *LIKE* China rapidly taking over the manufacturing of integrated circuits worldwide (for example).
I do not think national-interest goals are necessarily "bad". And I am certain they are NOT "enslavement". But the real debate should be over whether they are anti-competitive to the extent that they in any way become an oppressive domination of the world market.
China is still welcome to develop their own tech, and eventually I expect they will, but creativity and innovation are STIFLED by a "big brother" CCP that appears to be more concerned about "social credit" than technological accomplishment.
Actually, my dear Bob, if you would take a closer look, you will see that it's the CCP that brought China where it is today. It's not that US did try to help China and the CCP hampered their efforts. I know it is difficult to swallow but their model has a lot of merit. We all know Communism was supposed to be a failure, something to show as a negative example to Western nations who might try to criticize Capitalism. CCP succeeded in proving their model is viable. In my opinion, this is what scares the hell out of the US.
National interests are bad if it's Russia, China, Iran, Brazil and a lot of other countries (I'll let you find a common criteria) and not bad if it's us the westerners who are aligned behind a certain super-power. And what US is doing is enslavement. It may be 3.0 but is still enslavement.
As for the social credit, it is equally appealing to Western democracies who will not hesitate to implement it. Maybe for different reasons but the end result for citizens will be the same.
well, labor intensive manufacturing can't be economically done at $20/hr and still maintain an affordable price on the store shelf. And for YEARS China made it TOO easy to shift manufacturing there... until there was something resembling a lock-in. It's like a lot of things with introductory prices or "free upgrades" that lock you in so that you can be monetized properly, later.
Or, like drug dealers that give away free samples of highly addictive chemicals, KNOWING you will be back. With money.
Prohibition in the US banned that sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933 ... resulting in massive profits for the MAFIA and free whiskey for the politicians. Eventually the MAFIA was making so much money that the prohibition was retired, funding the New Deal with alcohol and other excise taxes bringing in $1.35 billion, nearly half the federal government's total revenue.
This kind of verbiage is wearing a bit thin. The best thing that we can do with these think tanks is ignore them. Yes, they're good at putting out press releases, lobbying and whatever they're paid to do but their assumptions about what our world is like is so far off the mark it would be laughable if it didn't have real world consequences. We in the US convince ourselves that we're ruled by "democracy" in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary because we don't want to face up to the implications of what we really are. We need to 'hurt' China because its a whole lot easier, and more profitable, to work to bring China down than to bring ourselves up.
... but I am relieved to learn that they are alive, doing well, and contributing their much sought-after opinions.
Nothing would piss China off more than being less able to steal Western tech. And then claim in some propaganda rag that they invented it in the first place.
Which is pretty much the only thing they're relatively good at.
Idealogues wearing blinders view the world through tunnel vision. The communist unutopia is brazenly undemocratic when the state is ruled by a recognizable declared dictator and his puppet clique. All resemblances to free democratic or republican practices are purely coincidental and vaporware. Practically speaking PRC citizens are slaves to the state with severely delimited choices definitely lacking customary liberties of the west. No apologies offered for bursting your collective bubbles. Perhaps living under the regime might revise your ethereal attractions.
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