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Re:US Sanctions Helped China Supercharge Its Chipmaking Indu... by trasz on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @09:42AM (#31823852)
Nigeria has even more. But it doesn’t make them a superpower that could just shrug off the sanctions.
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Re:US Sanctions Helped China Supercharge Its Chipmaking Indu... by fritigern on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @12:52PM (#31826174)
Russia just did.
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Re:US Sanctions Helped China Supercharge Its Chipmaking Indu... by trasz on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @02:09PM (#31827153)
Not really :-D Russia did have _some_ economy before the sanctions; now all they are left with is gas. Even China doesn't want to cooperate.
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Re:US Sanctions Helped China Supercharge Its Chipmaking Indu... by simonblack on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @06:33PM (#31829861)
now all they are left with is gas

And wheat, and titanium, and neon, and rocket engines, and metallurgy, and hypersonic technology, and .....

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Re:US Sanctions Helped China Supercharge Its Chipmaking Indu... by trasz on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @07:59PM (#31830518)
Wheat, true. It’s questionable if they can still do much in titanium. Neon is mostly Ukraine, Russian rocket engines are pretty much done (they spent everything they inherited from USSR), and hypersonic appear to be a scam.

Here is what they can’t manufacture: electronics. Or planes, or tanks, or even ordinary cars.

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Re:US Sanctions Helped China Supercharge Its Chipmaking Indu... by fritigern on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @02:06PM (#31839636)
> Here is what they can’t manufacture: electronics. Or planes, or tanks, or even ordinary cars.

They'll just buy it from China. Like everyone else does.

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Re:US Sanctions Helped China Supercharge Its Chipmaking Indu... by trasz on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @04:57PM (#31841770)
Assuming China will want to sell them (and it might not want to; it’s not just Apple that you can’t buy in Russia anymore) - sure. But they doesn’t change the fact that the entire Russian economy is on life support.
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