Subject: Re: What selling out to China looks like
Right. Biden, the guy who has in two consecutive years placed additional crippling curbs on the export to China of advanced semiconductors and the equipment used to make them, honing in further on Chinese artificial intelligence capabilities that have potential military applications and closing loopholes that Beijing could exploit to get what it needs from third countries. The updated export controls came almost exactly a year after the administration’s first restrictions on semiconductor sales to Chinese companies, which altered the trajectory of U.S.-China tech competition significantly enough that they have come to be known in trade policy circles simply as "October 7."

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It seems obvious that China can get its hands on all the very latest in semiconductor manufacturing capability it needs by seizing Taiwan. Biden's restrictions will do little to solve the China problem and if anything could hasten the day of reckoning for Taiwan.

And when the inevitable happens, it will be our supply that will be disrupted. It hasn't been that long since new car lots were empty due to Covid related supply chain issues with the chips automakers needed but could not get, chips primarily manufactured in Taiwan.