China achieved a breakthrough in EUV lithography, a trillion-dollar technology the U.S. tried to block. The National Security Strategy explicitly flags this as a strategic threat because it affects semiconductors, AI, and military production.
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Now, the other big issue that I am comfortable talking about, not in detail as far as the scientific aspects of it, but to put it in perspective regarding this trillion-dollar surplus as to why the US and the European— some countries in Europe are crying foul— is the idea of how this development, the production of the Chinese, both economically and technologically And what do I mean by technological aspects here? Is the equivalency of the Chinese scientific breakthrough, you know, the EUV machines. So, and you just think about the economic and the geopolitical significance of this, the impacts on industries, the impacts on AI, the military technology or production of weapons, and so forth. All this gives you an idea as to what even the US were trying to prevent. Yeah, they were trying to prevent the Chinese from reaching that level. They couldn't. They just couldn't do it. So the idea is, you think about the, the contribution of this trillion dollars. Where it has been contributed into, uh, sort of different, different topics into all this. For example, when you think about this record-breaking of $1 trillion, you have to put it within the context of what the U.S. stated that during the national, uh, the National Security Strategy, especially on page— if I recall, if my memory serves me well, page 22.
