High end semis: Taiwan, Korea, Japan, US. All are designed in US, Japan, etc.

Mid-range (aerospace, automotive, thermostat control): Malaysia, Thailand.

New restrictions mean China can't import these without a special dispensation. China can't anymore buy the tools to make the high-grade (so they never reach that level). Method: requiring export licenses to send semis to China. Biden is using the Foreign Direct Product Rule (first used under Trump versus Huawei. ... Chinese plans for technological self-sufficiency.

Lower-range (watch, IOT, calculator): Chinese made.

China might be melon-scooped out of the semi business, said Zeihan.

Zeihan said "We're not at the end of Chinese technological rise." Counter-argument, please.

 
UK has a new National Security and Investment Act, which it used against a company that sold to a Chinese company (which started selling all it's products to it's new owner), causing the UK to fear a tech transfer from UK to China. (Newport Wafer Fab sold to Wingtech.(