Eh, the global market succeeded and was profitable back when China was almost entirely sealed off from the world. The global internet market succeeds and is wil

Eh, the global market succeeded and was profitable back when China was almost entirely sealed off from the world. The global internet market succeeds and is wildly profitable despite being mostly locked out of China by the firewall. I wonder if China will say that the manufacturing of all ARM devices in China will be illegal. CPUs aren't manufactured in China to begin with. Ditto for many other of the complex components of electronic devices. China handles final assembly and the parts that are easier to make. If you're proposing China forbidding the manufacture of any electronic device that contains an ARM core anywhere physically inside it, sure, they could do that. They'd gut their own economy and risk an uprising given how much their "legitimacy" relies on economic success. Assembly of electronic devices is easily moved around, some of it is already moving to cheaper places like Vietnam simply because Chinese labour has been getting more expensive over time as the country develops. Which is cheaper: packing up and relocating a factory to a country with lower labour costs and a significantly less aggressive government, OR, redesigning your entire product and (for phones/TVs) breaking compatibility with huge numbers of your apps to strip out ARM in favour of something significantly less performant? Moving the factories will always win that comparison.