| > Not if it means giving up IP and knowhow to partners Was US interested in that? These things just happen when you do business. And don't happen as much if you don't. > Chinese government policy shifts to enact mass export controls out of national security concerns. Gee, I wonder who they got those silly ideas from. How well is that working for the country who came up with this first? > The US along with allies like South Korea, Japan, and West Germany transferred IP to China in the 1980s to 2000s Out of sheer goodness of their hearts, I'm sure. No, you just can't exploit someone efficiently, without sharing at least some of what you know. That's just what's needed and what happens when you do this kind of business. Getting exploited in this fashion brought China tremendous advantage. Europe should follow this path. > China - just like the US - is uninterested in negotiating with the EU as equals nor in providing it capabilities for technological self sufficiency. What gave you the impression that I postulate "as equals" negotiation? There are no equals in geopolitics, ever. US spent more than last half
a century treating Europe as a vassal state, suppressing its development and exploiting it for capital, technology and people. That's not new for Europe. US nukes have been pointed at half of Europe for a very long time and the other half defense anf politics were fully infiltrated by the US. It's not new for Europe to carve out comfortable existence under someone's boot. But keeping yourself bound to a "has been" empire on its way down is not a winning strategy. > China has significant strategic linkages with Russia that cannot be broken Of course they can. Russia is maybe a few years (at most decades) away from losing significant part of its territory to China. > China has significant disdain for Europe Rightfully so. And Europe would need to be a good and useful client and a partner for a decade or two before it can change. > China - just like the US - is uninterested in negotiating with the EU as equals nor in providing it capabilities for technological self sufficiency. Europe is the only political entity on Earth that has self sufficiency in making most advanced lithography machines. China can't make them, US can make them. They would need piles of money (which they have) and decades of work (which they don't) to change that. Europe just should walk down from its pedestal and play their cards, including the strongest one, to get in good graces with China, because US is on its way out. > As I have pointed to you with sources Your sources are other people's narrations. But thank you very much for providing them, so that I could asses them. |