alt Hacker News> All their engineers would emigrate abroad if that were the case and they wouldn't be making domestic CPUs and AI accelerators.
Maybe, though nationalism may play a role here, especially if they believe themselves to be the underdogs. Not everybody only optimizes for money.
>Not everybody only optimizes for money
Yeah but it's bad faith argument to say they work for peanuts. This is western colonial mindset to assume China's success is due to poverty wages. You can't build a semiconductor industry on that.