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No fucking way! You mean a country that's almost completely aligned in terms of culture and language and food, and for which immigration policy is basically an open door, and for which economic coupling is at an all time high... trades with their closest neighbour?
Jesus Christ who comes up with these articles?
Good. Not only one country or society should be able to manufacture advanced technology. Monopolies are bad.
It's like people have already forgotten about the COVID microchip shortages.
grappling with Beijing’s growing belligerence.
Its what? Western news is so full of shit.
Developing 5G communications and microchips for cellphones is belligerence. Bombing countries and funneling weapons to proxy wars is peace.
A small country that is economy dependent of another country that happens to be their biggest trader has interest to work with that trading partner.
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China is helping China develop Chinese chips?
If the Chinese help China build this Chinese infrastructure, it may reduce Chinese dependence on Chinese chips, since China will be able to produce its own chips instead of buying them from China. This may hurt China economically long term, since China is the largest buyer of Chinese chips by far and if they start buying chips produced in China instead of Chinese chips China's economy might shrink.
Then again this is probably not that big a deal. Just more anti-Chinese propaganda by the US, pushing for Chinese independence from China, without quite going all the way and recognizing China as its own country, since that would go against the long standing policy that China is one country and China is part of that country.
Okay but how much wood would a wood chuck chuck tho?
A LOT. If those fuckers could chuck wood I would even go so far as to say probably all of it.
Republic of China ≠ People's republic of China.
Well yes. One is the result of a bloodthirsty and corrupt military dictatorship which is directly responsible for the deaths of millions, whereas the other is the People's Republic of China.
However, both are China as you can see from the names they've chosen for themselves.
There is only one China, according to about 180 countries on earth. That includes USA. FYI, Taiwan never expressed a want for independence because Taiwan itself wants reunification with China. Ever thought of it?
