Reminder that a million state of the art US-based chips fabs can't make <i>anything</i> without all of the Chinese rare-earths the US imports. China + Russia are together responsible for about 85% of the world's silicon supply.
They are announcing the winner before getting the results, weird, do they think they can repeat the US vs JPN episode? [1]<p>Why are they trying to convince the public opinion that the US is winning when it's just not the case [2]<p>[1]- <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/04/18/sanctions-imposed-on-japan/f0daac66-74fe-4f5c-96ce-3aa08898b4bd/" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/04/18/s...</a><p>[2] - <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-cracks-advanced-microchip-technology-171655294.html" rel="nofollow">https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-cracks-advanced-microch...</a>