Only if they have — or can reasonably develop — the means to produce cutting-edge chips on their own, which is (arguably) not the case.
What?
Serious interest here. Can anyone else verify that the Chinese don't have the ability to develop and manufacture these chips?
That's stunning. I had no idea that was the case.
Or is this just a, "they don't manufacture computer chips" kind of thing. Which, strategically speaking, is critically different than, "they don't know how".