On Wed, 2019-10-02 at 10:44 +1000, Kim Holburn wrote: > https://theconversation.com/whats-at-stake-in-trumps-war-on-huawei- > control-of-the-global-computer-chip-industry-124079
Interesting article. But choking off a technology from an adversary forces the adversary to become independent - arguably a worse thing than being dependent on the US (or the West generally). It's never worked, and it never will - not with silk, not with chocolate, not with nuclear weapons, not with anything. Chinese indigenous semiconductor technology will be developed as a mater of course, and when it does it will be opaque to the West, while the West is almost literally an open book. Cooperation would be a way better course of action here than blockade. China has more people - meaning a greater number of completely BRILLIANT people, a far more focussed government that doesn't have election cycles to worry about when it does its planning, and very few scruples. The West is kidding itself if if thinks that can be kept under control, even if keeping it "under control" were a rational thing to want. "Keep your friends close, your enemies closer". Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer ([email protected]) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D Old fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
