The U.S. position on the entire Chinese semiconductor industry is getting increasingly ridiculous. It's not just chips, since China is the one country that's developed efficient monocrystalline silicon ingot production at scale, and solar panels made with that material are far superior to anything made in the USA currently.
The USA's financialized short-term thinking has resulted in a failure to develop basic technological infrastructure capability, and China is now in the lead - so the response is, stop trading with China on all things silicon? This is the Tonya Harding team's 'let's try to win by kneecapping our superior competition' mentality, and it's doomed to failure, if not in the short term, than certainly in the long term.
The USA's financialized short-term thinking has resulted in a failure to develop basic technological infrastructure capability, and China is now in the lead - so the response is, stop trading with China on all things silicon? This is the Tonya Harding team's 'let's try to win by kneecapping our superior competition' mentality, and it's doomed to failure, if not in the short term, than certainly in the long term.