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The general made it clear, directly throwing it in our faces: You Chinese people, do you want to live a good life? Do you want to work on chips, AI, and other high-tech? Sorry, as long as you have this thought, you are my enemy.
This statement can be described as very straightforward and domineering, and behind it lies a game that has long begun, fully surrounding China's rise in technology:
From chips to AI, from hardware to software, the other side's actions have been quite unambiguous, even to the point of putting their “technological hegemony” intentions on the table.
Starting with the chip, this “technological lifeline”, the earliest symbolic event of this blockade must mention the 2019 incident where Huawei was added to the entity list.
At that time, Huawei was relying on its self-developed Kirin chips and leading 5G technology, enjoying tremendous success, with smartphone shipments nearly reaching the global first threshold. As a result, the other side directly issued a ban, prohibiting American companies from supplying Huawei.
I thought this was harsh enough, but unexpectedly, in 2020, they doubled down, even making it so that overseas foundries like TSMC could not produce chips for Huawei below 10nm, directly cutting off the production line of Kirin chips.
During that time, Huawei's mobile phone business instantly fell into a low point. After the stock of chips was used up, high-end models were temporarily out of stock, and market share dropped from its peak. Even the Honor brand had to be spun off to seek self-preservation. This operation truly played the “strangling” tactic to the extreme.
But they still felt it was not enough, and brought in allies like Japan and the Netherlands to jointly restrict the export of high-end lithography machines, aiming to fundamentally cut off the possibility of Chinese companies producing advanced process chips, clearly not wanting us to have any opportunity to rise in the chip field.
I thought this series of punches could pin down China's chip industry, but unexpectedly, this instead forced out our “will to survive” and creativity.
SMIC unexpectedly managed to produce 7nm chips using its self-developed N+1 process without high-end lithography machines. When the Huawei Mate 60 Pro emerged, it directly made the outside world exclaim “breaking the blockade,” and the Kirin 9000S chip in that phone is the best proof of domestic technological breakthroughs.
Looking at the AI field, the other side's blockade has become even more severe.
Starting in 2022, the United States listed advanced AI chips like NVIDIA's H100 on the ban list against China, with a lofty reason, claiming it was to “prevent technological abuse.” But anyone with clear sight knows it is just to prevent our AI industry from having sufficient computing power support.
Later, it even escalated, attempting to globally ban Huawei's self-developed Ascend chips.
Besides hardware, the software aspect was not spared either. Earlier this year, they imposed a DeepSeek ban, trying to intervene even in our large language models, attempting to cut off our AI development path from the algorithmic level.
Even more exaggerated is that their entity list is getting longer and longer, with now over 1,000 Chinese institutions and enterprises on the list, of which companies in the AI field account for more than 40%, including star companies like iFlytek and SenseTime.
In the chip field, more than 300 companies have received special attention, with leading manufacturers like HiSilicon and SMIC being repeatedly sanctioned. Research units in the supercomputing field like Zhongke Shuguang have not been spared either. This is not normal technological competition; it is clearly a comprehensive encirclement.
But ironically, the other side's sanctions have instead become a catalyst for improving our AI industry's ecosystem.
The Ascend chips were not banned; on the contrary, they secured an order for the world's largest AI data center in Saudi Arabia. After using our technology, the performance of Malaysia's sovereign AI servers improved while energy consumption decreased.
Large models like DeepSeek were not brought down either; instead, they attracted a large number of small and medium developers through an open-source model, building their own algorithmic ecosystem.
Even the CEO of NVIDIA had to admit that the export controls on AI to China have already failed. After all, our AI industry chain has transformed from “following others” to “innovating on our own.” This operation has truly backfired on them.
So ultimately, the reason the other side takes our intentions in chips and AI as a symbol of “enemies” is fundamentally because they fear we will break their technological monopoly.
In the past, they relied on technological advantages to easily earn high profits and dominate the discourse in the tech field. But once we achieve breakthroughs in key areas like chips and AI, it not only allows us to live well but also enables more developing countries to enjoy technological dividends, which undoubtedly undermines the foundation of their “hegemonic cake.”
They thought that by relying on bans and sanctions they could lock down our development, but they forgot that what Chinese people excel at is breaking through under pressure. From the initial “backup plan” to the current complete industrial chain layout, from single technological breakthroughs to a perfect ecosystem, in this game, their domineering rhetoric and encirclement tactics have instead become the best “booster” for our technological rise.