[sidlls]

Current efforts out of China and India (for example) aren't making any advances. They have the appearance of "me too" in the sense that they signal a certain level of technical achievement that puts them, at best, on par with other countries. I don't think it's unreasonable to question the priority of that compared with tackling other issues.

[merpnderp]

Maybe it's reasonable to question, but these projects build infrastructure and trained engineers, a lot of which have duel usage in industry.