Absolving AMD -- who actively made the choices in this case to pursue a market that they certainly didn't need to chase, and which would certainly end up biting

Absolving AMD -- who actively made the choices in this case to pursue a market that they certainly didn't need to chase, and which would certainly end up biting them in the medium term -- while blaming "lazy western journalists", is simply incredible. How in the world it became the fault of journalists is an incredible stretch. The Trump bit makes your motivation suspect. The bit about big versus small -- China pulls the same tact with virtually all foreign companies, even making Apple and others play the China game. Intel was expressly forbidden by congress of sell or licensing server chips in China, and AMD went in to try to eek a small profit in the void.