Haha this thread has epic scales of TDS and MSM regurgitating.
Aside from that this move is obvious, it's Political first, then business as second, look at SMIC what do they even produce, they are doing it now, probably stolen Micron technology or whatever, where were all these people when Apple started doing business with Chinese Govt. when they bent over for the Xi and CCP to shove and take control over the iCloud data and servers and every single bit and ban VPNs & how Disney moves close to CCP, esp with their latest IP lawsuits on 3rd party Toy makers in China, the CCP doens't care but when the money comes in they blast them off, a big 3P toymaker for transformers got shoved hard in China. Or where were people when AMD got DoD approval for the Zen IP transfer in 2016 to Hygon. American Wall.St made China where it is now, they didn't care about the long term and wanted short term and got what they wanted, China in return grew exponentially, to the point of corrupting Americans from Reddit censorship and influencing goliath gaming studios like Activision / Blizzard, Epic games bending over Tencent, Hollywood as well. And Venture Capitalists in Silicon Valley, esp the uber libertarian socjus social media activists we often see on Social Media nowdays on Twitter and Reddit are often against U.S & even American companies themselves, like Apple and look at that Google Project Dragonfly, that move after how many years of abandoning Chinese market ? Look how America is willing to make such moves to sell itself out, sad truth.
Chinese aggression has been over the top lately, China is going the route of debt based sugar daddy system on Sri Lanka, South China Sea, Africa (WHO Covid disaster who can forget ?) and other parts of the world esp India - Pakistan clashes and Chinese stance. No one is an innocent. This is purely the American way of controlling the Technology, by this move SMIC's SSDs won't take off, look at EU and ASIA, Huawei, BBK and Xiaomi control a lot, again they learnt that from Apple's Pegatron, Foxconn facilities in China, how come a nobody in Tech can rise to such ranks. Chinese mastered the art of Reverse Engineering from Technology & Military. And the way to see this is multifaceted to be honest. India cannot be much aggressive over China, Russia cannot only U.S can do it so why not use the power when you have ? That's why Taiwan also announced TSMC fab in AZ to get the American hand in the geopolitical warfare of technology.
Forgot the most important thing, CCP is the actual part which is ruining China, be it their advantage of removing poverty and not making a disaster like western civ destabilization which is happening esp this year in all forms of entertainment from games, movies, TV shows having the socio PC garbage. All of them traded for the loss of complete liberty and total authoritarian. Japan & S.K are much better in this aspect as unlike west derangement and Chinese authoritarian they are still a democratic system and still are conservative respecting their nation's history or family values, however it's up-to them on how long they can continue that as we can see cracks in that too sadly.
