Very disingenuous title. First, China was already trying to move toward manufacturing independence. Second, instead of buying 5nm chips, China is settling for

Very disingenuous title. First, China was already trying to move toward manufacturing independence. Second, instead of buying 5nm chips, China is settling for working on initial 14nm production. That's 8 YEARS old at this point (not even comparable to Intel's 14++++ stack). Third, this also seemed to be on the back of equipment purchased earlier. Moving forward, they can't buy cutting-edge manufacturing devices. Instead, they have to create a whole industry to make the machines to make advanced chip fabs. I somehow doubt that the normal, rather loose Chinese tolerances are up for the job. Fourth, they also need to build out an entire silicon refinery industry which is itself not an easy task to be accomplished within the next few years. By the time all this is in place, the economic repercussions will have been extreme. If Biden wins the election, he's going to continue the same process, but I somehow doubt this same outlet will continue pumping out such dumb partisan pieces.