Letter
Australia is one trade deal away from backing authoritarians
I understand that Taiwan feels threatened by China. However, the arguments in the article I feel are not substantiated.
China now has the expertise and capability of surpassing Western chip capabilities, perhaps not as yet achieved, but in development. I feel this is shown in part by the speed that China developed AI capability in such a short time.
The West appears under the misapprehension that China needs chips from Western manufacturers, but I feel the reality is that China will use Western technology when it is cost-effective and available. The idiocy of forcing Dutch manufacturers to stop exports of modern chip manufacturing technology to China has merely temporarily stopped the future Chinese manufacturing capabilities. I expect China will surpass Western capabilities given some development time.
One must remember that once technology is designed, it is easier to replicate the development and, with the sheer number of Chinese technologists, easily surpass Western technology. One only needs to look at the speed of EV development to see a picture of the future.
This all comes from a very agrarian country that I visited in 1978. What is the future?
— Doug Foskey from Tregeagle