Comments by "G L" (@gelinrefira) on "The Flawed Assumptions Behind China’s Big Semiconductor Fund" video.

  1. Semiconductor is a strategic assets. China has no choice but to go head in to develop their own semiconductor technologies at every level because the west, especially America will not allow China access to these advanced technologies. There have been many naysayers in the past that China can never achieve certain technical know how and they have been proven wrong. There is nothing physically stopping China from getting those tech and they certainly have the money, talent and baseline to develop them. The only thing they don't have is the luxury of time and they are likely going to be always one gen behind the west for the bear future. China has no choice but to develop this. A large component of their defense is going to be AI powered spy satellites which will be vital to completing the kill chain for their long range antiship ballistic missiles. Now that America is blocking China from acquiring AI accelerated chips from Nvidia, it is a matter of national security of utmost urgency for their AShBM to be a credible deterrence against US aggression. They have no choice but to forge ahead. It can mean a matter of life and death for hundreds of millions of Chinese if they cannot stop the USN right outside the second island chain when America turn fascist.
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  2. You want them to reinvent the wheel just to please your moral sensibilities? When they are constantly push around by the biggest bully in the world using that same tech to threaten their citizens' lives?
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  3. You mean part of the value chain as a client state of America. China does not want to be a client state of America like Europe and some Asian countries. They want to determine their own fate and that challenges America's hegemony. Which of course does not go well with Americans. Don't make it sound so innocent, that China just have to play ball because it means living under American domination and live by their rules. Why should China live by American rules. And for fuck sake don't give me some freedom crap bullshit because we all know that has nothing to do with liberty or freedom, considering that half of the American voting population have dreamt of turning America into a Christofascist corpo-state.
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  4. They don't have a choice. They have to find a way to develop their own semiconductor manufacturing from raw silicon to package product. It is clear that the US have target China on this particular tech and is using her influence to lock China out. China's national security is at stake because they rely heavily on AI and thus very advanced AI accelerated chips to power their intel for their defenses and the US government knows this. The US wants to retain its hegemony in the Pacific and it can't do that if Chinese AI based satellites can find, track and target USN fleets across the entire ocean. That will mean no US ship will be safe from long range antiship ballistic missiles if Chinese satellites can target them thousands of kilometres from Chinese coastline. It will make even super carriers sitting ducks and the US government will not allow that.
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  5.  @avbhinaya  People have said the same thing about jet engines, the Three Gorges Dam, the space station and numerous other stuff that China has no way of ever achieving for the last 50 years.
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