Right wing think tanks says what? Who cares....
First and foremost, there has NEVER been a single instance where Chinese hardware has been shown to have been spying on Muricans or sending your wife's nudie selfies to someone other than her boyfriend. Bloomberg did a number of stories on rice chips in Supermicro server boards intended for and shipped to Apple and Amazon. Apple and Amazon both denied the story with full page ads in the NYT, Supermicro denied the story but Bloomberg continued to make the claim and NO EVIDENCE supported that claim. Yellow journalism from an NSA plant. Pathetic.
As for the organization of the Federal Laws in the US and it's States. There is no Federal Police Force. Thus to enforce Federal edicts like stupid Executive Orders and FTC regulation crap, the Federal Gov has to offer a carrot since they have no stick. A simple example is enforcing a 65 MPH speed limit on Federal Highways. States get Highway funds with the attachment that the State Police will enforce the speed. Again THERE ARE NO FEDERAL POLICE in the USA. Thus, what a state buys or does not buy is unenforceable. It is banned by the 10th Amendment.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
National Security is a flat tire by now. The tread is gone and the hematoma bulging if not blown out. It is the Chicken Little Story... one btch too many and never a scrap of evidence to back it up. For the right wing and far left in Murica, evidence is irrelevant. Trump claims a stolen election, 64 Federal and State Court cases maintain Trump is FOS. Has that stopped Trump's false claims? NO. Nor has the notion that China builds hardware to spy on you... Facts are irrelevant. Evidence is irrelevant.
As far as the Federal Gov boycotting Huawei hardware or ZTE, who cares. The 10th Amendment prohibits the Federal Gov from asserting authority without Constitutional Approval. Remember the recent Court Case taking down ROE v WADE... application of the 10th Amendment. Abortion is not a Constitutional grant, whether you agree or not is irrelevant.
As for equipment, states have contracts and they will honour those contracts. They can't claim force Majeure over some lame executive order or ENEMY LIST. The NSA doesn't control states in the USA.
Meanwhile, the US Gov meddling in Trade has cost US Semiconductor Companies roughly $100 billion in losses of business to China with the silly Trump-Biden Sanctions and Boycotts. Earnings are down across the board. China uses this to garner the support of its workforce to change buying habits. China now has 28 nm litho machines of their own design. Just a year ago that machine was 86 nm. So China is moving fast. With a homegrown 28nm you can do three passes and get to 7nm. This Trump Biden Trade war crap is going nowhere. All it is doing is harming the US Semiconductor businesses. And the only company agreeing with sanctions is INTEL which is being destroyed in the marketplace. When you are on the wrong side of economics it is suicide. Not one other US Semiconductor firm supports the US Gov hounding Chinese firms or blocking China Tech trade. But if you are a redneck or socialist then facts don't matter, economics is for eggheads, laws are to manipulate others to needle and taunt.
This NANCY KERRIGAN Kneecapping strategy is a loser... Unlike the vapid spew of the Xenophobes out here, China has an almost endless cycle of beating any sanction ever imposed. And the US sanctions are so petty. The US didn't send their politicians to the China Winter Games. Oh how sad for China. Will anyone remember that childish slight? No. It was just dumb. Then there was Obama blocking China from buying INTEL CPUs for a fully disclosed supercomputer. 15 months later China had built their own RISC chips and got the title of fastest Supercomputer at the time. Over and over this cycle repeats. and the Chinese use this to great effect. You dopes are not stopping China.
When it came to the Trump Trade war, they bounced Trump like a soccer ball. Those Trump Tariffs have destroyed the US supply chain, and you are headed into a Smoot Hawley styled recession with massive inflation. Every time the politicians strike China, they get clanged on the head and the US economy takes a beating. Does this matter to rednecks? No rednecks are generally unemployed and have no marketable skills. To them China is the cause of all their failures, not their dropping out of school. In the US 65% of college enrols are women. Men are falling on their faces. There is now a whole new violent underclass of rednecks in the US. Like the loser that attacked Paul Pelosi.
China doesn't have your vices. There is no violent male underclass. Everyone works, the safety net is thin. I can walk the streets of China at any time day or night without any concern for my safety. Try that in NYC or Chicago or Liverpool or London.
Read some of the adversarial posts out here complaining about employers, always with a subversive passive-aggressive tone. You don't see or hear that in China. China is fast-moving and upbeat; it is a culture of work. The Ameican Culture is lazy. There is an account of a Railroad Scout working on the TransContinental Railway... he kept a diary. In the diary he said of the Chinese workers,"They are muscle and sinew, work from sunrise to sunset, eat and drink next to nothing all day, and lay three times more track than any Amerian team." He went on to say the Chinese would have to go home to China because they would never fit in with the lazy relaxed tempo of Americans.
And to those of you that think this is Pearl S. Buck's China, you are way off the mark. China is a culture like no other on earth. It is a society of endless industry. In 2013 Bill Gates noted that China used more Concrete in the previous 3 years than the US used in the 20th Century. The US used 4.5 Gigatons over the 100 year period and China used 6.6 Gigatons over three years. If you think you are going to beat China with Petty swipes and insults, you are in for a rude awakening redneck.
It is not just in this space of semiconductors... it is across the board. China produces 1000 million tons of steel a year. the port of Shanghai handles 500% more cargo than all US ports combined. It is a culture of work. What do you have? A culture of misfits that want to attack the US Capital, that wants to attack a Speaker of the House and her husband with a hammer.
As for Huawei attracting attention on the Register, it does so for several reasons. 1) It demonstrates the depths to which the US goes when they get destroyed in the marketplace. The US failed at 5g. All the claims of superiority and the US falls on its face, just as it did with COVID, just like it did in Afghanistan and every one of its forever wars. 2) But with Huawei the kidnapping of the Founder's daughter was a low never achieved before, a low like attacking the US Capital, so off base and so incredibly grotesque that it draws attention and should draw attention to the decay of the US moral conduct.
For the same reason, the Vietnam war turns the stomach. The Bully USA starts the war over a false flag in the Gulf of Tonkin. They attack North Vietnam, blowing off like they have lost their minds and they lose and crawl away without paying war reparations or apologizing for this unconscionable conduct. It is anti-Asian Racism. And you necks are outnumbered.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
