[dathinab]

> tangling their economy up more with that of the West

That might have worked in the past but doesn't anymore as China actively counters this.

Selling them such machines will just bring short term production benefits to china and potentially gives them a chance to have it a bit easier to copy the technology.

But long term China will have it's own production methods and for it's military they will only use this sources. Currently they are at 28nm as far as I know. Which might be still quite a bit away from stat or the art but is already fairly useful for many use cases.