Germany is absolutely dominating everything regarding industrial precision. Its not like other countries are sitting and waiting but Germany is just too far ahead on industrial equipment/instruments.
If a Greens led Deutschland want to go down the anglo crusade route, then europe can expect to be nothing more than a collection of backwater vassal states competing for the grace and largesse of China. A Greens led Deutschland would be nothing more than a bigger Sweden.
Technologies are not silo'ed out with such neat boundaries. Cutting edge scientific instruments are undoubtedly used to design many of the tens and thousands of pieces that go into a EUV machine. And technologies like AI that use advanced chips are undoubtedly being used in turn to design more advanced scientific instruments. Which then are in turn used to make more advanced chips, and so on. The entire ecosystem works as a whole. China's technological level must therefore be raised as a whole as well, and it is an iterative process of part trial and error with physical limitations on how fast it can go. The task at hand for China is a lot harder than most people realize.
China is alot further along than most people realize, due to racism and hubris.
@FairAndUnbiased that's right bro with all due respect to @gadgetcool5 bro its 2021 what ever short coming the Chinese have they know they have to work harder and depend on themselves cause the trust is broken and the adversarial attitude prevailing in the West is a major motivating factor.
