[LINK] What’s at stake in Trump’s war on Huawei: control of the global computer-chip industry

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2019-10-02 at 10:44 +1000, Kim Holburn wrote:
> https://theconversation.com/whats-at-stake-in-trumps-war-on-huawei-
> control-of-the-global-computer-chip-industry-124079

Interesting article. But choking off a technology from an adversary
forces the adversary to become independent - arguably a worse thing
than being dependent on the US (or the West generally). It's never
worked, and it never will - not with silk, not with chocolate, not with
nuclear weapons, not with anything.

Chinese indigenous semiconductor technology will be developed as a
mater of course, and when it does it will be opaque to the West, while
the West is almost literally an open book. Cooperation would be a way
better course of action here than blockade.

China has more people - meaning a greater number of completely
BRILLIANT people, a far more focussed government that doesn't have
election cycles to worry about when it does its planning, and very few
scruples. The West is kidding itself if if thinks that can be kept
under control, even if keeping it "under control" were a rational thing
to want.

"Keep your friends close, your enemies closer".

Regards, K.

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