USA Ludicrously Announces Restrictions on Computer Chip Exports to China
Because national security means shooting ourselves in the face
In their continuing efforts to trigger World War Three, American officials today announced onerous restrictions on American computer chip makers who want to export their products to China. The reason, according to the Wall Street Journal, is that China might use our technology to improve their military capability.
There are a couple of problems with this. One is that it's a little late to worry about China harvesting our technology, since they've been doing it for decades. The other is that we don't make computer chips in America anymore.
Of course, that's not literally true. According to a report the WSJ published last year, we make around 17% of the world's chips. The plurality - over 50% - are made in Taiwan, and most of the rest are made in China itself.
Considering that Nancy Pelosi and other professional psychopaths from DC have already spent months provoking China to invade Taiwan, in much the same way Kamala Harris and her ilk provoked Russia to invade Ukraine, it's hard to see this chip policy as anything other than saber-rattling in the direction of Beijing.
If China takes the bait, and invades Taiwan, the USA is not going to be in any position to restrict chip exports. You know why? Because we won't have any.
In that scenario, China would have cornered the world market for the semiconductor chips that power modern society, in much the same way that Russia has cornered the market for fuel and food in Europe: not completely, but enough to be a serious, serious problem for everyone on the other side of the table.
The good news is that, without chips, it will be hard for WEF-captured regimes to implement the technocratic authoritarianism of The Great Reset. The bad news is that many of us will freeze or starve to death instead.
So, what do you think? Are they really this stupid or is there something else going on- maybe the financial system (that controls the politics)? It's a real mystery to me.