Communist China hits back at US stance on chip technology

A REPORT IN the People's Daily claims the US is being paranoid about China's push into semiconductor technology, and is "falsely claiming" that chip technology will be used to raise its military strength.

In an editorial published today, the Plagiarist's Daily said the US imposed a 17 per cent tariff and "slandered" China by saying the Politburo had violated World Trade Organisation rules.

The editorial claims that Kenneth Juster, an apparatchik at the US department of commerce, tried to put pressure on Taiwanese OEMs from investing in the mainland.

The US, says the Plagiarist's Daily, has a "psyche of suspecting everything". It's made enemies "everywhere" and suspects that other countries are agin it.

Plus, says the newspaper, when an innocent country like China shows it can do technology too, it's a sign of "military ambition" and so is subjected to sanctions.

It claims that the US has no evidence that chips can be used to develop weapons, and adds that the States "admits that semiconductor products cannot be directly applied in weapons".

And yet, unbelievably, the US prohibits the export of high performance semiconductors to China, it adds.

Yeah, right. It's true that if a bomber drops Intel chips with 478 pins or the vastly superior number of 754 pins of AMD chips, they might make an awful mushy socket in your head, but some might wonder just how Communist China has made so many leaps forward in the last decade or so. Could it be, by any chance, that US politicians, semiconductor and other high-tech manufacturers interested in the short term rather than the long term, colluded in the export of their technology to a country which still hasn't quite got round to apologising about Tianamen Square? We think we should be told.

You can find more on the same lines, here.

You can't believe everything you read in the People's Daily, of course. Earlier this year it blatantly plagiarised two INQ stories and has refused to either apologise, acknowledge the source, or pay us for the thefts. We are currently complaining through our local MP about its copyright theft. µ

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