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by chlee 2147 days ago
The chinese govt is indeed throwing their weight behind developing a local semiconductor industry capable of rivaling TSMC. They are making heavy investment in SMIC for example.

However, at the same time, unfortunately the Chinese government doesn't play fair, and they are ramping up state sponsored industry espionage and hacking of American and Taiwanese semi-conductor firms to speed up the process.

This best describes China's perspective towards "technology acquisition"

“They want technology by hook or by crook. They want it now. The spy game has always been a gentleman’s game, but China has taken the gloves off,” said John Bennett, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s San Francisco office, which battles economic spies targeting Silicon Valley. “They don’t care if they get caught or if people go to jail. As long as it justifies their ends, they are not going to stop.”

See:

https://www.wired.com/story/chinese-hackers-taiwan-semicondu...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-basf-espionage/basf-worke...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/taiwans-technology-secrets-come...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/08/inside-...

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-china-economic-es...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/prc-state-owned-company-taiwa...

1 comments

+1 to this, China has never made anything real themselves. It is all stolen property from countries who actually play fair.

Until the general U.S population realizes that china's end goal is to eat them alive and unanimously supports putting china in its place, nothing will change and by then I fear it will be to late.

The assumption that any country, especially the successful ones, plays “fair” is ludicrous. IIRC the CIA (or was it NSA?) was giving state-gathered intel to American arms And aerospace manufacturers in the 1980s so that they could outbid European rivals.

The Chinese might be playing by different rules than those “established” over the last few decades by the west; but no one is playing “fair”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#:~:text=Airbus%20lost

"In 1994, Airbus lost a $6 billion contract with Saudi Arabia after the NSA, acting as a whistleblower, reported that Airbus officials had been bribing Saudi officials.."