Preface
The Sino-US core war has lasted for many years, and after the launch of 5G technology, the United States began its own "long road of sanctions" in order to maintain its hegemonic status, desperately using various means to encircle and intercept China's chip industry.
The United States has also put pressure on its allies to stop buying Huawei equipment unless they want to give up the benefits they receive from the United States.
Has the United States' strategy of scientific and technological warfare really succeeded in these years? Why has the United States' suppression of China also affected the development of its own country's enterprises? First investigating Seagate and then restricting Nvidia, the three major chip giants have already raised their dissatisfaction, but the US Congress has not even spared its own people, and has even openly investigated the groups that may promote investment in China.
1. U.S. restrictions on China
The U.S. crackdown on Chinese companies is endless, and although they are ostensibly seeking dialogue and friendship with China, what they are best at is the empty white wolf, whether it is an American politician or an entrepreneur.
On the surface, they created an atmosphere of good negotiations with us, but in fact, they threw out a false olive branch, and then after the negotiations were completed, they gave full play to their rogue specialties and went back on their word to increase sanctions against China.
So far, more than 700 Chinese companies have been sanctioned by the US government, but the US seems to feel that this is not enough, and their fanatical maintenance of hegemony seems to have reached an unreasonable point.
2. Further attack on foreign enterprises
If it is said that the scope of attack of the United States was still on Chinese companies at the beginning, then the United States can be said to have expanded the scope and increased horsepower, directly cooperating with enterprises in Japan, the Netherlands and other countries, and preventing the lithography machine manufacturer ASML from exporting high-end lithography machines to China since 2019.
This is not enough, under the "repeated bombing", unexpectedly, it has had the opposite effect, the mainland's semiconductor imports have increased instead of decreasing, and the exports of American, Japanese and Dutch enterprises to China have doubled.
As a result, the United States has set its sights on Nvidia, which has just improved in the field of artificial intelligence chips, and directly "attacked" its own country's enterprises to restrict Nvidia's exports. It is better to "injure 800 enemies" than "injure 1,000 yourself."
At present, under the pressure of the United States, the entire chip industry is already on the verge of "collapse", with sales in the new quarter plummeting by 50%, and overseas markets are wailing.
3. The United States, which caused "popular indignation".
In this crazy battle for hegemony in the United States, the three chip giants can't sit still. Executives of Intel, Qualcomm and Nvidia, the three major chip giants in the United States, held talks with U.S. government officials.
The main purpose of this meeting is to urge the government to stop the more restrictions on exports to China that it is considering, why did the three major chip giants make such an appeal? In fact, it is not difficult to guess that the most important point is that China is an indispensable market.
The first lesson of the market economy teaches us where the market is, and the American chip industry certainly understands this truth, China is the world's largest semiconductor market, with purchases of up to $180 billion in 2019, and China alone accounts for one-third of the global total.
If globalization is a complex web, then chips are the most sophisticated and complex nodes in it, and any restrictions on chip exports can ripple like throwing stones and breaking the surface of a calm lake. Globalization is not just rhetoric, and what the United States is doing will undoubtedly have an impact on global supply chains.
Of course, the calls of the American giants are not motivated by goodwill towards China, and some have even expressed concern. They are not only worried about losing China's huge market, but they are really worried about the possibility of China's technological catch-up.
They are worried that once the United States implements stricter chip export restrictions, China may be forced to carry out independent research and development, and even launch higher-grade chips than the United States, which is like not letting children eat sugar, but children have learned to make their own sugar, and may do better. This is not what the American tech community wants to see.
epilogue
The call of the American chip giant is not only a concern for the future, but also a reflection on the status quo. US hegemonism and power politics have aroused the dissatisfaction of many foreign companies.
It is not difficult to see from some international issues that when dealing with external challenges, the United States does not adopt a rational and pragmatic attitude to seek solutions, and often resorts to extreme measures to forcefully safeguard its own interests. However, this approach has failed to achieve their desired results, and has instead exacerbated antagonism and tension between the parties and harmed their own interests.
In fact, all the above data show that the United States' all-round encirclement and interception of China has failed, and under the pressure of the United States, China has not only not stopped, but has promoted the improvement of our independent research and development and innovation capabilities.