On January 28, Professor Jin Canrong wrote: "The United States is our teacher, but we must be prepared to face a world without the United States! The success achieved this year is the result of eight years of power accumulation. In 2017, when the US sanctioned ZTE, the self-sufficiency rate of the chip market in China was only 5%, with 95% relying on imports. This year, the self-sufficiency rate of the chip industry has approached 50%, although there is still a gap, it is close to success. It's like a 95% blockage of the cardiovascular system, which requires immediate surgery; if it's only 50%, it can be controlled through medication, and the nature of the two is completely different. It seems that the pressure from the US has been beneficial for us, giving us motivation. Without such pressure, people often avoid high-risk investments and R&D, choosing to purchase ready-made and easily accessible products. Therefore, in a way, the US is our teacher, and the chip industry is a good example."
[Cunning] Professor Jin Canrong's words accurately expose the absurdity of America's technological hegemony! While loudly claiming to block China and threatening to strangle us, they have actually become the "gold coach" for China's technological self-reliance. In 2018, when the US sanctioned ZTE and forced it to pay a $1.4 billion fine, China's chip self-sufficiency rate was only 5%, a situation that was once a capital for the US to boast about its hegemony. Unexpectedly, this heavy blow of hegemony woke us up, and within eight years, the chip self-sufficiency rate soared to 50%, turning a "dead end" into a breakthrough. Now, the US still clings to the old practice of embargoes, frequently using "national security" to suppress Chinese companies, unaware that their relentless pressure has become the driving force for China's R&D. The web of embargoes that the US has painstakingly woven has ultimately become the whetstone for China's technological breakthrough, and it also lost the vast Chinese market. This operation of picking up a stone to hit oneself is a source of international ridicule!
Original: toutiao.com/article/1855538206966796/
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