If the pact also includes a ban on Western technicians going over to China to keep installed machines running, then existing China semiconductor operations will be severely affected.
The pact is a smart move by the Americans who, no doubt, have zero wish to fulfil Lenin’s prophecy that “the capitalists will sell us the rope with which we hang them.”
China had tried to take the short-cut route to chip self-sufficiency – buying in the manufacturing equipment it needs, stealing the process technology and the software and recruiting Western brains.
