Buy time for AGI hailmary I suppose. Scifi hypothetical is the ~5-10 years it would take for PRC to potentially reach parity with western semi that AI would gra

Buy time for AGI hailmary I suppose. Scifi hypothetical is the ~5-10 years it would take for PRC to potentially reach parity with western semi that AI would grant US strategic take off where gap can't be closed - a fight for the entire light cone. Except if PRC keeps a second mover advantage to a few years they still have massively robust supply chains to apply software AI to transform physical atoms because unlikely US AGI will suddenly build decades worth of industrial supply chains unless US AGI goes straight for grey goo. Nevermind PRC still in US telcoms and likely infiltrated every strategic AI company that matters, and if existential AGI ever on the horizon, they can smash red button to cut off 90% of advanced semi from TW. India still in the containable window, they'll get there eventually but IMO both US + PRC will take opportunity to undermine.