China: Not the Technological Juggernaut
The China Wars Part IV - A Semiconductor Industry Tale
In March I wrote an article that, if I had the time, would be the first in a series that I hope to one day continue about how China's rivaling of the U.S. as the "Technological Hegemon" was a Media-concocted tale.
The article got some pushback. What could I expect? Half my writing is devoted to deconstructing Matrixian Sacred Cows.
There is no doubt that China's economy has progressed in 50 years since the last wave of controlled demolition of the rich history of China. More than two generations of Chinese have been allowed to graduate from college since, and the economy (at least in most provinces) is more decentralized than most Westerners imagine. Still, China lags behind in fundamental drivers of technological innovation, not to mention control of the world's largest capital pools.
A few hours ago this tweet hit one of my discussion channels.
It's part of a larger thread explaining how the pullout of Western experts just frozen the Chinese semiconductor market. Much of the information came from this thread.
What Just Happened in China's Semiconductor Industry?
It's impossible to know for certain because neither the Eastern nor the Western media care to talk about it. If the withdrawal of support by the West really did just cripple China, it is the kind of shame that leadership simply doesn't admit quickly. And the Western media has essentially stopped telling the truth about most anything, which is the surest indication that the U.S. has seen all this as a war for a number of years now—going back at least into the Obama administration.