You are very mistaken if you think a 14 trillion, 1.4 bn person economy cannot educate it's own engineers

The Chinese have been in my country for 15 years and in those fifteen years ,we have high speed Internet, highways ,railways, hospital equipment, better armoured vehicles....in our 40 years of our reliance on the west what did we get except SAPs, ruthless dictators and Diplomats who infantilised our leaders. China is far from perfect but don't believe what the west says either. The difference between what American/Western officials speak and what the Russian officials speak is the accent.

China is here to stay ,at this point you can't ignore China and if you think that you will suffocate china by restricting their access to EUV technology you vastly underestimate the amount of resources the CCP have at their disposal especially right now when they have run out of places to build infrastructure ,the resources that were used to build infrastructure will be redirected to technology and don't forget China has access to those Coltan mines ....If you think you can ignore China just look at Tiktok, YouTube had a 10 year headstart and still couldn't develop such a powerful algorithm, look at their 5G or their strides in nuclear fusion energy .Banning the export of high end chips and fab equipment to China will only slow them down but you can be damn sure that it won't stop them.