
Episode 634: Looking West to the Taiwan Strait, with Dean Cheng
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The Great Game of the 20th Century
Bajing ideally wouldn't depend on tian. A would make it all themselves. And micro chips are part of maden china 20 25. But the reality is that designing and building chips, the fabrication plants, cost literally billions of dollars. They have to be equipped with a variety of advanced lithography machines to cut the channels that are seven manimeters wide or less. Those machines, in turn, are built mostly outside of asia. One of the key producers is dutch; they seem to have a lock on that particular type of equipment. Bajing: China openly tries to buy it, and not so openly, tries to steal the relevant technologies.
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