Oh I dunno to simultaneously give Chinese tech companies a huge boost while more or less ending one of the US’s most valuable companies?
They could easily argue it was tit for tat.
They could easily argue it was tit for tat.
USA could end Chinese chip production as a retaliation, since they are still dependent on US and European manufacturing machines that they can’t operate on their own. It’d take a decade to catch up and make their own manufacturing equipment. In the meantime they’d make themselves essentially irrelevant to the world if they can’t be relied upon for doing contract manufacturing.
There are many such areas where China would be more hurt be economic decoupling than USA.
Mutually assured economic destruction.
It would also cause every tech company in the western (and western aligned) world to leave China for good.
I find it very strange there aren’t more people ringing the alarm bells about how we’ve positioned China to have the west by the short hairs.