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breaditbans t1_istk2hj wrote

Reply to comment by makesameansandwich in The Outer Space Treaty: Is peaceful co-existence in space the future? Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies by CPHfuturesstudies

China is a dying imperial power that never actually attained an empire. They just got cut off from the highest end semiconductors. American engineers who work in their tech sector are fleeing the country. And their population is already in rapid decline. The red wave crested, broke and is receding.

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makesameansandwich t1_istpba0 wrote

There are still 1.3b of them or so, and even with xi staying in power til death, the country will race towards a future they prepare for. China does not only plan for 5 or 10 years. They plan for 50 or 100 years. Add in the fact that they shipped thousands of well educated chinese males, from the 1 child progrom, to african countries to take over from inside, with no wars, to have access to natural resources, and eventually to be overlords, barring the great road experiment, and china is still ascendent.

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Working-Tomatillo857 t1_isudpv1 wrote

Don't be so sure, China has been stealing American IP for decades. If you don't think they are plenty capable of creating their own semiconductors you are dead wrong.

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tanrgith t1_isvc9ds wrote

Anyone can create semiconductors, however, creating the most cutting edge high end semiconductors is extremely difficult. So much so that there's only 1 company (ASML) that can actually make those EUV Lithography machines. And unfortunately for China, that's a Dutch company that's banned from exporting those machines to China

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