If the Great Wall could be stolen, it would not be inside China today. It would be inside one of the Western Museums long ago, lol. I do understand that most of the items now in Western Museums were stolen artifacts from China, India, Africa and other countries of the Global South. Some have been returned to the original owners after much shaming probably.
Now there is a new narrative floating around that ASML may have sold a complete EUV machine to China. ASML has vigorously denied the accusation by Howard Lutnik, the USA's Commerce Psychopath, one of many in the Trump Administration.
That machine weighs 180 tons and cannot be smuggled inside a travelling suitcase to be delivered to China. It needs specialized transporting expertise and supporting engineers to deliver and assemble. And in spite of all the scrutiny, if such a thing happened, it is a slap on the face of the USA's intelligence people. The actual accusation was that ASML or its suppliers/agents shipped some components to China. The reality is that some common components are used by both the DUV machines, which China had bought, and EUV machines, and the USA is using this argument as proof that China could not have advanced so rapidly without being gifted a EUV machine. Moreover, ASML also need to source for components for its EUV machines from Japan, Germany and elsewhere.
The real reason why this issue was floated is to tell the world that China had depended on ASML's EUV machines to rise to where it is today. The USA is still trying to promote the argument that China could not have make such progress on its own steam and expertise. Give a dog a bad name and then skin it is the agenda of the USA.
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When the time comes, the Chinaman will cook the cocky USA into chicken soup. The USA is now at a loss as to how to counter China in so many sectors. Most sectors producing things in the USA are rendered uncompetitive, but the narrative is always about unfair subsidies by the Chinese Government. Did anybody think about the tens of billions in subsidies by the USA Government trying to lure chip makers to build logistics in the USA? Those tens of billions in subsidies dwarfs what China is doing, but nobody seems to take note. What the USA did itself, it accuses others of doing it - so said Putin.
China is able to produce products cheaper with its cheaper energy from Russia and Iran, its hold over most raw materials it needs, its use of robotics in factories needing less manpower, a skilled workforce resulting from universities churning out skilled engineers that had been horned in specialties for the job. China is now the top dog in innovation. China holds more patents filed than any country in the world, including the USA.
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