> in 2022, mainstream and westoid virtualism opinion was ``china is cut off from the future now`` (cue the clownface here). ``we cut off chinas legs`` yadayada

maybe where you were paying attention. were they also certain that americans wouldn't be paying the tariffs?

but lots of people who saw what china was doing with renewable energy and EVs rightly suggested this would put them on the path of independence w/r/t GPUs and LLMs.

this isn't like the ol' days where "japan can't do software". we knew china can.

your attitude isn't warranted.