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Re:Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips by lsc on Sunday December 01, 2019 @09:17PM (#21679362)
>The US lost a LOT of capability over the last 20 years

citation needed...

My understanding was that US manufacturing output has been steadily growing (even if employment has been falling) for all of that time.

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Re:Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips by Gibbon1 on Sunday December 01, 2019 @11:39PM (#21679851)
That's a common belief and it's wrong.

https://research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1250...

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Re:Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips by phkahler on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @12:29PM (#21694445)
We lost the ability to make CRTs and subsequently never gained LCD and Oled manufacturing. We lost the leading edge in IC manufacturing. We lost the ability to put people in orbit. Were in danger of not being able to make passenger planes.

Sure, all of that can be turned around, but the trend is toward losing capability to do advanced things.

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Re:Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips by perl4ever on Sunday December 01, 2019 @10:08PM (#21679524)
I think I have read that that manufacturing employment has been falling in China and the world as a whole, too.
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