Chinese is in a much different place economically than the Soviet Union was.

With the cheap labor coming from rural areas it has similarities with USSR in 50 and 60s. Found some research on the topic: http://www.centrosraffa.org/public/bb6ba675-6bef-4182-bb89-3...

i don’t think big-O cares about a couple orders constant

Yes, but the Soviets were running their entire economy like that. China and the US do stupid thing like that with their military spending all the time but they're taking in resources from healthy civilian economies rather than sclerotic ones.

I'll just point out that "replace foreign vendors with domestic for security reasons" is exactly what the US is trying to do to Huawei. I think the US and China are equally capable of succeeding at this kind of project..

The implicit assumption in most HN discussion is, if the US's doing it, it's fine and good. On the other hand, if China tries, it's doomed to fail.

And what's wrong with rooting for your team? Go Yankees! Boston sucks!

What's wrong with a little harmless fun?

I'd say the Chinese are more capable of this than the US, if for no other reason than that's the place where almost all hardware and hardware components are already made.