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đ¨đł I have said this before: the US sanctions strategy on Chinaâs chips was always going to fail. â ď¸
Not because China is magically ahead, but because once you tell a civilisation-state of 1.4 billion people that it is never allowed to touch a core technology again, you guarantee only one outcome:
It will build it itself, whatever the cost.
Behind closed doors in Shenzhen, China has now built a working prototype EUV lithography machine, the crown-jewel technology Washington has spent years trying to keep out of Chinaâs hands.
Itâs not producing chips yet. Thatâs not the headline. The headline is that the monopoly is over.
For years we were told EUV was âtoo complexâ, âtoo protectedâ, âdecades awayâ for China. We were told export controls would freeze China a generation behind.
They were wrong.
Whatâs happened here isnât Silicon Valleyâstyle innovation. Itâs a state-level mobilisation, run as a national-security project.
Sealed facilities.
Compartmentalised teams.
Restricted communications.
Thousands of engineers.
Former ASML staff working under aliases.
Huawei coordinating the entire ecosystem end-to-end.
This is Chinaâs Manhattan Project and that comparison is accurate.
And hereâs the part West still refuses to confront: export controls didnât stop this, they caused it. If China had been allowed to buy EUV machines like everyone else, it likely wouldnât have spent six years reverse-engineering the entire stack. Sanctions forced China to internalise everything.
Yes, China still struggles with ultra-precision optics.
Yes, Zeiss-level mirrors are difficult to replicate.
Yes, timelines are debated, 2028 officially, more realistically closer to 2030.
But that alone destroys the original assumption that this gap would last decades.
Once EUV exists domestically, even crude, even inefficient, the game changes.
Iteration replaces access.
Yield improves.
Talent compounds.
And the sanctions regime starts leaking from every seam.
Huaweiâs role tells you everything. This isnât just about chips. Itâs about never being technologically blackmailed again. Design, tools, fabrication, packaging, integration, all under one roof, all insulated from foreign pressure.
The West keeps framing this as âtheftâ or âespionageâ. Thatâs comforting, because it avoids the harder truth: You cannot permanently fence off foundational technology from a determined industrial power. History doesnât work that way. It never has.
This doesnât mean China suddenly âbeatsâ ASML tomorrow. But it does mean the era of permanent technological gatekeeping is ending and with it, a lot of assumptions in Washington.
Sanctions didnât preserve dominance. They accelerated the end of it.
And this is why I keep pushing back on the lazy âChina canât innovateâ narrative. I live here. I watch how this country responds when it decides something matters. It doesnât panic, it doesnât posture, it mobilises, absorbs the pain and keeps going until the problem disappears.
You donât have to like China. You donât have to agree with its system. But pretending this didnât happen, or brushing it off as impossible, is exactly how strategic miscalculations are made.
The world is changing, whether or not people are ready for it.
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