The neocon/neolib regime is getting desperate in general.
Ukrainian War Developments
- Thread starter james smith esq
- Start date
- Status
Lenovo doesn't have a choice, if it didn't play ball it ended up Huawei'd
the ban is on intel/amd chips, if lenovo disregard the sanctions, it gets no chipz
Washington regime could theoretically do this, but this would be something that would take at a minimum months. China could hit back even harder by simply stopping the export of masks, PPE, other critical supplies in merely days. Yes, Washington could probably rebuild all of this (they went to the moon 50 years ago), but it takes time to build factories, get the steel, man the production lines. Forget stopping china's rise, Jimmy isnt going to have a pencil to go to school, let alone his laptop already cant get replaced.
USA running big trade deficit for manufactured goods .
Means if the USA want to replace the Chines supply they will need to quardruple the home industrial capacity.
Neither of those countries you listed (Vietnam, Mexico, India) has enough semiconductor manufacturing ability to replace even existing capacities in China, lol - they lack everything from the tech to specialists.
You are right about calling it a nuclear option because it is mutually assured destruction on the US part - this move will not only make "everything more expensive", it will destroy hundreds and thousands of companies on the part of sanctioning countries, and the current undersupply will look like a joke. In addition to that, if China is fully barred from semiconductors, then they will simply stop exports of rare earths and the equipment to extract & refine them which will put not only semiconductors but many other industries to a halt all over the world. Every single piece of tech that uses chips would cease to exist for several years - Western regimes would collapse from internal unrest.
Things are getting tense in Kiev.
Not on the same scale. China will have to ban all exports if the US goes scorched earth policy. Simply barring rare earths is not enough because such an action by the US isn’t just slowing China but an attempt to economically cripple China. Such an action must be met with equal response. If they are going nuclear on the economy then China must go nuclear as well.
They look awfully retarded.
I can imagine, some lieutenant went to a cybercafe in Kiev, picked those who were playing first person shooters, and told them, you're now in charge of bridge defense.
High-end semiconductor is the chokepoint though... US can source pencils from anywhere, heck they can even conscript Canada and Mexico to be their cheap labor slaves... but China creating a complete high end semiconductor supply chain (including the tools and the tooling for the tools and the software design etc etc) is 10x to 100x as hard as say the US find an alternative source for rare earths or coercing an ally/vassal for raw materials or just straight out pirating shipments of medicine/PPE etc and putting those 11 carriers to good use on the high seas....
My point is semiconductor is the hard stuff, everything else that China can take away from US is much easier for US to replace or even go without than say China suddenly losing access to chips and chip making machines/materials... Yes China is catching up fast, but currently US has the advantage of having their entire tech stack, platforms and standards integrated into the global world economy and they have proven they are not shy to abuse their position to make sure China never overtakes or even so much as become peer competitor...
Chips are at the heart of the modern world and economy. Its not just about smartphones and gpus and computers, no chips no car, no airplane, no train, no nothing... its completely and categorically different than sourcing raw materials, we aren't talking about a different color of paint or a new country to get steel from etc... even raw earth is just a commodity. But high end IC is different. Its the one thing that is hardest to make/replace and even if China had a chip clone it would take as much effort for the global supply chain to have to redesign to accommodate Chinese chips than it would be for US to bully everyone to isolate China from the market/game/supplychain etc in a grand experiment of build back better / great reset
Plus I don't recall computer companies ever stopping shipment to Russia back in 2008/2014... its why I think this move is US hinting to China about the things to come if it doesn't capitulate and backstab Russia etc
Last edited:
- Status