I was referencing existing fabs, not new ones.
Actions speak louder than words and TSM's order book speaks volumes. China is working hard to supply even low end chips that are key to a whole host of industries and products while threatening very blatantly to want to take over Taiwan for the high end chips. Actions speak louder than words and almost every industrial power is scrambling to acquire or build the chips needed at all levels to stay competitive.
Japan Kiaxia are looking for partners to test their 5nm manufacturing method. Instead of going the ASML way, maybe they may have a cost effective way. I don,t think it is going to continue to make economic sense if the strangulation of technology are the price that humanity pays. Take for instance the cryogenic industries. Before the Chinese came into the picture, I have to throw out all my economic justification out of the window with American, European and Japanese equipment. But that all change when the Chinese start to produce these product domestically,, so I think if we ever want to serve the Asia and Africa continent,,, all politics are just mad-house parliment affair,, but the market can or cannot accept is not the parliment house in London or Washington that decide. The guys in Nairobi can afford to buy is decide by the $$. So when I look into EUV and DUV,, i have always ask..I am sure there is a better method.. If we can sputter complex alloys..and different matrix of material,, why we have to rely on UV ?
Huawei was recently banned from receiving FCC approval for their products.[1] US investors were also banned from investing in their company.[2] Around this time, TSMC also cut off Huawei's chip supply.[3]
Xi is an absolute dictator and has demanded it and put China's massive resources behind it. If they have to beg, borrow or steal technology to do it, they will. This has been proven time and time again. I wish the US and China could learn to cooperate and collaborate to take advantage of both their strong points, but this would take good leaders with wisdom on both sides and this is very sadly lacking. I hope tech leaders on both sides could solve the problem and I believe they could if the politicians could find it in their minds to get out of the way and unleash the massive power coming with AI/ML that will be the greatest revolution for its power to leverage resources on a scale not even imagined.
As far as I know the only really useful thing from your cited article is "Smelting, for example, is also primarily done in China." "'Rare' earths" aren't really all that rare as the map shows, what's rare is the ability and willingness to refine them from their ores, which has been described probably pretty accurately as "boiling them in acid 1,000 times." So as usual Green friction makes it uneconomical to refine them in the West, although at this moment I'm more worried about how they and anti-Russia policies have made manufacturing nitrogen fertilizer uneconomical in Europe.
That sort of thing has not enabled the PRC to make military jet engines as good as Russia's, let alone the rest of the West's.
I wasn't trying to link an article that tickled anyone's fancy. I linked it because it's an original source for the quote I used to make a point. Please don't belittle people for citing original sources. They can be painstaking to track down, but if we don't do it than misinformation spreads due to human error.
China is already far behind on this technology, both in tooling and IP, that are heavily legally protected by copyright and patent laws. When an empire restricts free thinking, the penalties to themselves are large and compounding. Many times a command economy fails by not allowing outside the box or innovative thinking that is now more than ever driving the world economy forward. Free thinking fares best in a free society. If you restrict free thinking and actions, by definition an individual or power is limiting their own potential.
So what are you worried about then ? I tend to agree that less free nations condemn themselves to slower innovation - innovation demands free thinkers who are not bounded by ideology and trying to produce the pre-approved "solutions".
