It’s becoming clearer by the day that those of us who, from the beginning, opposed US export restrictions against China on the grounds that it would light a fire to Chinese tech innovation and incentivize autarky, were completely right. See the report from ITIF in the link below.
To be clear, that is not the only reason I opposed those restrictions. I also relieved that the primary trust of US competition should be to try and run faster, not try to trip the other guy. And I believed that trying to deprive China of inputs was fundamentally immoral.
@KaiserKuo Perhaps autarky is a pinch too strong of a word here? Technological sovereignty perhaps?
@haugejostein Trying to make the post fit Twitter length restrictions!
@KaiserKuo You want to compete? Give every cn engineer in a top field wanted a greencard. Invite every cn entrepreneur who can’t get on AShare an easy listing on U.S. stock exchange. Greenlight any cn industrial investment to revitalize manufacturing. That’s hard competitions!!!!!
@KaiserKuo I don’t think export control is fundamentally immoral. I think it’s just plain stupid. I do think the Chinese society was on the very cusp of innovation explosion anyways. And that it’s extremely stupid to deprive a bilateral exchange of IP , see rare earth refining.
@KaiserKuo When the crowd yelled MAGA, they forgot why America was once great in the first place. It was the NDEA of 1958 and very hard work afterwards, for many generations, that brought America the golden days. And, it was due to an external stimulant, the Soviet launch of Sputnik
@KaiserKuo Well in early 90s US switched off GPS and pushed China to build its own GPS(Beidou system) That in turn helped China run everything on its own china GPS(Beidou) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
@KaiserKuo Why would you oppose that? This is one of america's greatest achievements! https://x.com/SimonSW13/status...
@KaiserKuo Were you among the crowd that believed whitey's disgusting lies about Xinjiang tho?
@KaiserKuo @HomieCharlie That is precisely why I am no longer raging against US export controls, other than for the purpose of reciprocity/parity in a trade negotiation. Luckily, from what we have heard from Bessent and others, the US export controls will stay on.