"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,". Americans might have forgotten about the golden rule but no matter China would keep reminding the US by sticking with this principle.
You know, like, I just thought of something.
Like, I really don't follow too much about how such a ban on Gallium would affect the Americans and their producers, simply because I am more interested in the Chinese stories.
Now that you mention it, the gold rule, I realized something.
The reasoning for the Americans to ban chips to be sold to Huawei, was to halt production of 5G gear. That was the whole point. Huawei beat it with a stockpile. If the Americans could convince others that Huawei cannot produce the products because they lacked the chips, they would have won that round if Huawei lost customers because of that.
Now that the shoe is on the other foot, not too sure about gallium stockpiles in American hands.
The situations are different too.
Huawei kind of knew how many 7nm chips it would need in their base-stations, because the design of the network will require X amount of base-stations and from there we can work out how many 7nm chips will be needed for manufacturing and deployment, then have enough as spares and wait for the Chinese IC to develop. A plan with certain targets along the way.
With gallium, that is unknown, because everything is expanding with its use, demand is expanding, so they probably will need a lot more in the future, amounts that they will have to source from somewhere.
Then again, like, who the bleep cares. It is their problem, along with the mass shootings, Biden's drug addiction, and dancing nakid people on the streets.
