Comments by "Mark Armage" (@markarmage3776) on "Could China Survive the Sanctions Against Russia?" video.

@jaidengabriel1675 Actually they didn't. If you think what China has been doing for the last few years has anything to do with trying to get some tech, you're wrong. They haven't been really trying. Because it's not profitable for them to do so. When they really try, that's when they sacrifice everything, even economic proficiency, and they don't do that. The only point of making semiconductor their own is to profit from those semiconductors, so if they sacrifice economic proficiency to make semiconductor, what is the point?
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For the idiots who don't understand how technologies work. You can't sanction a country that doesn't really need you. China doesn't need the world, the need China. China have absorbed enough intelligence from the globe to be able to create the product itself inside the countries if needs be. Whether it's "advanced" semi conductor or whatever it is, even nuclear weapons or advanced weaponry. They don't import not because they can't create, they import because it's not commercially competitive to make their own. They can make their own if you force their hands. Don't confuse the decision of not making things due to inefficient economics result vs the inability to make things. In dire situations, the people of China will work for free and crush the competitors, it's just not dire enough now.
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