The scientific and technological containment war launched by the United States against China has reached the point of madness, and the more crazy the United States is, the more crazy it is, the more effective the US containment strategy has been in the past two years. However, the reason why the United States is so crazy and carrying out scientific and technological encirclement and suppression of China, the words of US Secretary of Commerce Raimondo really let the world see the meanness and shamelessness of the United States. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo emphasized the importance of the United States maintaining world leadership in chips when she laid out the Biden administration's vision for implementing the Chips and Science Act over the next decade at Georgetown University on February 23, but said the United States is not aiming for self-sufficiency.
Raimondo also said she is also reluctant to subsidize large U.S. companies, but given the unique nature of semiconductors, the United States has no choice but to make this national security investment while continuing to work with allies and partners to strengthen export controls to China and win competition with China. Raimondo also said:
"The research, innovation, and manufacturing sparked by this law will make America the top technological superpower, ensuring our economic and national security for the next generation." Like our leadership in the nuclear and space races, our ability to maintain a competitive advantage in advanced technologies is critical to our ability to ensure that the technology is deployed responsibly. ”
Raimondo announced that the Commerce Department next week will launch a $39 billion funding application process focused on commercial chip manufacturing facilities. The money will encourage companies to make semiconductors in the United States. By 2030, the U.S. will design and produce the world's most advanced chips, with at least two new clusters of large, cutting-edge chip manufacturing plants, she said. In addition, the U.S. will develop multiple high-volume advanced packaging facilities and become a global leader in packaging technology. U.S. fabs will also produce advanced memory chips on economically competitive terms.
The reason why the United States can design such a big blueprint is actually that the United States has increased its support for the semiconductor industry. The Chip and Science Act passed by the United States last August totaled $280 billion, including $52 billion to support manufacturing and research and development in the U.S. semiconductor industry to help the U.S. regain its leading position in semiconductor chip manufacturing. The United States is to ensure its dominance and firmly control the entire chip industry chain by increasing subsidies and support. Raimondo emphasized that "the purpose of the United States is not to produce all the chips that the United States needs." We want to win this innovation race, and we need to be in a better position to lead the world in this highly competitive and global industry. ”
Raimondo also said, "What makes chips unique is their ubiquity. Semiconductors form the basis of all advanced technologies, from artificial intelligence, quantum computing, cloud, big data and chip foundations. Each of these technologies can be used for human welfare. Or if it falls into the wrong hands, it could be used for malicious purposes that we have never seen before. So the stakes here can't be bigger, no bigger, and that's why we have to win. "To put it bluntly, the United States does not want to be surpassed by other countries in the semiconductor field, especially by China. The biggest concern for the United States is that once these infrastructures change owners, the technological competitive advantage of the United States will be completely lost.
In fact, the reason why the United States can maintain global hegemony is to rely on the United States to have high-tech hegemony and absolute monopoly power in the high-tech field. Because high-tech hegemony directly supports the two major hegemonies of the United States, economic and military, it also allows the United States to arbitrarily wave the stick of financial sanctions and military strikes, and make those countries that are not satisfied with the United States bow down. We see Iran see Turkey's economy struggling under US financial sanctions, and this is the effect of the financial stick; We have also seen Iraq, Libya under the blow of the US military stick, the entire national government has been subverted, this is the capital of the US tyranny.
In this regard, the United States is most worried about being challenged in the field of scientific and technological hegemony, even if it is a normal scientific and technological competitor like China, it is absolutely inadmissible in the eyes of the United States. The reality we see today is that the United States, even if it uses the most shameless means, will carry out scientific and technological blockade and suppression of China, to put it bluntly, it is to prevent China from achieving progress and breakthroughs in the field of science and technology. Of course, the United States will not show that its means are shameless, but will find a high-sounding excuse for itself. As Raimondo said: "When I think about our competition with China, i.e. we are going to keep it in competition and not conflict, we have an offensive strategy and a defensive strategy." This defensive strategy is export controls and denies China access to our ultra-high-end technology. But the offensive strategy is more important, and this is to invest in the United States. ”
Raimondo will really glorify the shameless means of the United States, claiming to maintain competition with China, but use improper means to carry out commercial interference, which is called a "defense strategy". This is that the United States still firmly controls the dominance of international public opinion, and no matter how shameless the United States uses, American capital can use the media it controls to whitewash itself. This is now Raimondo, who can stand and talk without back pain, and can speak loudly to beautify the shameless behavior of the United States. Raimondo also said that "the United States continues to work with allies and partners, including the implementation of export restrictions to China." It can be seen that the talk of competition is actually the most shameless use of administrative means to undermine the rules of fair competition.
However, the commerce minister also acknowledged that achieving this ambitious goal will not be easy, requiring private sector investment in chips and supply chains, as well as attracting and training enough qualified labor for jobs in manufacturing. Clearly, these are the challenges facing the United States, which does not have that many qualified corporate workers. Moreover, the cost of related products produced in the United States is 30% higher than that of finished products produced in Asia, which means that it is difficult for American products to be competitive. Unless the allies of the United States and the West are willing to pay the price for the United States, with the current state of the United States, it will be difficult for the United States to gain a competitive advantage even in the next 10 years, but it has a monopoly advantage.