[dkarapetyan]

This is silly. They are not acting in their own best interests by doing this. The only thing this does is open up the opportunity for someone else to step in. It's not like they are leading in either drone or supercomputer technology.

It would make sense if they were so ahead of the curve that everyone was clamoring to get the stuff and in which case the restrictions on the top end stuff would make sense but as it is I don't think they're in that kind of position. Manufacturing wise they might be but not in terms of R&D.

[hiou]

And the race to build rockets in the US was only about going to space 50 years ago... You might want to read up a bit about the reasons for Chinese industrialization. It's a means to an end. I've yet to read anything talking about China wanting to join the global economy beyond it's internal goals. You seriously think China's end game is building cheap stuff for Western consumers?

[dkarapetyan]

I didn't say anything about building cheap stuff for "western consumers", those are your words not mine. All I said was their manufacturing capabilities are currently unmatched but they are in no way leading in terms of the cutting edge stuff when it comes to either technology. It just seems counter-intuitive to me that being in that position they are limiting exports of supercomputers and drones.

For that matter I'm really curious which countries are clamoring for Chinese supercomputers and drones?

As for the history of Chinese industrialization I honestly don't see how that matters when it comes to setting export limits. It is purely a trade issue and usually when exports are limited in this fashion it is because the technology is perceived to provide some kind of advantage to whoever has it. Cryptography software comes to mind as a good example of something that the U.S. government tried to control with export laws for a long time. Carrying that analogy forward I don't see how supercomputers or drones provide any kind of advantage since most countries I can think of that could benefit from buying the technology from China do not pose a threat to it and those that wouldn't be buying from China and instead building things in-house are already equal to or beyond China's capabilities. The export limit in both instances is counter-intuitive because nobody wins from this arrangement.

[hiou]

So you believe that US manufacturing could equal China's output in both drones and supercomputers if there was an immediate and urgent need for them?

[dkarapetyan]

I don't think there is a shortage of manufacturing capabilities when it comes to drones and supercomputers in any place that cares enough for any of those two things, U.S. or otherwise.