> whats preventing China from performing the same actions against EU or American rivals? Nothing other than the automation rate. If a factory can achieve 100%

> whats preventing China from performing the same actions against EU or American rivals? Nothing other than the automation rate. If a factory can achieve 100% full-auto (which we are pretty much at already), security becomes much easier to manage. I believe US/EU facilities achieve higher automation rates than China in practice, but that is an assumption based upon former experience in the industry. I haven't gone through fab security in over a decade, but I suspect protocols are much more intensive now.