Melissa Rivera5 said:Man, copying stuff isn't nearly as simple as people make it out to be. I mean, sure, you can rip off a chair design or some clothes because everyone pretty much knows how that works. But the higher you climb up that tech ladder, the harder it gets to just mimic what's at the top. Like, I guess anyone who finished high school physics probably understands the basic concept of a nuclear bomb, but that doesn't mean they could actually build one even if they had a hundred years to try. It’s the exact same deal with chips. The US is facing a massive hurdle when it comes to the specialized know-how and the designers behind it all; trying to move an Intel plant over to the States so it runs just like it does in Taiwan is a huge mountain to climb. And if that's the case for them, imagine how tough it is for anyone else. All those sanctions that were put in place... honestly, I don't think decades of blind copying is ever going to make up for that.
Who even bothers with copying anymore? Nowadays, it's all about the race to innovate.
Case in point—they just edged out the Americans in a major semiconductor research metric:
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...hip-conference
A lot of Chinese researchers are leaving American science—not because there's a shortage of talent here, mind you—but because of the bullying and witch hunts pushed by the American administration during the Trump era. Meanwhile, China is waiting for them with open arms.
And if you use any basic logic, a nation of 1.4 billion people pumping out endless waves of STEM graduates has to have enough brainpower to close the tech gap with the West. We're seeing it happen right now, and we'll be watching it intensify over the next decade or so.
The tech embargo is just a desperate attempt by neocons to slow them down while they still have some leverage left. Honestly, it feels more like buying a single year of breathing room so the US can subsidize and protect its own industries before the Chinese competition steamrolls them—which, let's face it, already happened with solar panels.
Russia's "pivot to China," despite being forced by sanctions, makes sense from the jump. If they get hit, they can carve out a spot in that ecosystem. If they don't, they'll just be consumers of products without any competition—just like they've been, only the products used to be Western. Either way, they'll always be a source of cheap raw materials, whether for the East or the West.
