China is the largest importer of semi conductors in the world.
The dominant manufacturers are S Korea and Taiwan.
The US has beyond adequate manufacturing capacity, though a large number of fabs have been turned off due to cost competition.
It’s a commodity business at the low end (phones, cars, TVs, refrigerators etc.) and out of China’s reach at the high end.
All the truly high-end processors are designed in the US (sometimes Japan), and the most sensitive ones are manufactured here...by government edict. The rest are outsourced to the Asian countries.
The US has great, unused capacity.
Yep, the writer of this article seems to know very little about what he is talking about.
At the moment China has very limited semiconductor manufacturing capacity.
Right now China is the one that is entirely dependent on imports from unfriendly countries. They would love to change that, but making high end chips is hard.