Instead of "containing" china, how about just working with them? if you want to create an adversary, forcing an economic asymmetry which otherwise wouldn't exist is a pretty good starting point. It's a massive economy, it runs to a different tune for sure. I am really not confident that this move around modern VLSI isn't capable of backfiring hard.<p>That said, the article isn't wrong: if you believe the risk is solely future chips you've really misunderstood the depth of IPR in existing chips.