FairAndUnbiased
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That's not true. China can't produce EUV lithography eq and it won't probably for the next 5 or more years to be able to mass-produce. Without these ones China will be stopped at 7 nm process because there are some prototypes of DUV machines that can help to improve the process to 7 nm from the current 14 nm.
For sure there are more things like that. What about even stupid things like e.g. Github? Without it, Chinese software maybe not collapse but it would take one of the biggest hits in Chinese services/industry sectors.
Don't be blind, because it will end badly for China. Full decoupling now is too costly.
The vast majority of countries do not have even a single semiconductor foundry and don't have the money or capability to build one. Look at countries like India, Turkey or Vietnam. Without foreign semiconductors they might as well be in 1940s because they can't even build computers. they'll still be on vacuum tubes.
Most countries do not contribute anything other than labor or raw materials to human progress. China is one of the very few countries to have a material and intellectual stake in advancing humanity.