China’s top chipmaker may be in hot water as US lawmakers call for further sanctions after Huawei ‘breakthrough’::Shares in SMIC, China’s largest contract chipmaker, plunged on Thursday, after two US congressmen called on the White House to further restrict export sales to the company.

  • ram
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    131 year ago

    Ultimately though, does this matter? The smartphone userbase in China and India are a combined 6 times the size of the USA’s and are growing. Furthermore, the USA imports most of their tech from China, while China keeps their wealth largely internal. Even if the USA were to completely cutoff trade with China, it’s not like China’s doing nearly as much importing of manufactured goods, especially in the low-end, and it’s not as though China would be at a loss for trade partners even if every US ally followed suit.

    Cutting off trade to China, at least by what I can tell, would hurt the USA far more than China, or am I wrong?

    • @piecat
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      31 year ago

      They moved our jobs and production, and for what? Cheaper trinkets and widgets?

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        bigger profit margins*

        the potential for cheap mass produced goods was always there, the US had the manufacturing capacity to do it pretty easily themselves

    • @Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow
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      -11 year ago

      When was the last time you compared US and Chinese economic data?

      • ram
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        31 year ago

        Never in any holistic manner, would you care to enlighten me?

        • @Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow
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          -11 year ago

          Hint: China is not doing well and there is no clear path for their recovery.