China is the bigger trade partner for majority of the world. All the trade war will accomplish is to further isolate the US and its remaining vassals.
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Sure, the US is the instigator of the trade war, and other countries are merely reacting to America's unreliable and aggressive trade policies. Seeking more reliable partners is a natural response when your trade partner starts imposing sudden tariffs or insulting you. However, China has always been a reliable partner for Europe with a clear policy that it pursues. And the swinging I'm talking about is Europe's inability to commit to working with China.
Canada isn't exactly an industrial powerhouse. I'm glad you managed to move some small contracts here, even if it costs slightly more, but Canada is not a replacement for US industry. On the other hand, China absolutely can replace everything US produces and more.
I agree with the core message that the US is isolating itself, and countries will start looking for more dependable partners as a result.
i think the us has smaller cpu's that china still can not high end compete with, but for the importance of that i'ld say that the consumer area (without gaming) should not be of any problem for china. for datacenters and cloud systems, they mostly scale horizontally and could be done with consumer hardware too, so there would not be any blocker either for them. i dont see anything else of importance.
another thing china does not produce as fast as the us is bullshit. if not already before trump then at least now the bullshit production seems to be a world record.
I also don't think bleeding edge chips are nearly as important as people think they are. And it's worth noting how there are a lot of software optimizations that can be done to make better use of an older chip. This is a great example of that starting to happen already, DeepSeek is another. Eventually, China will catch up with chips, and it's probably not gonna take as long as most people think.
Meanwhile, bullshit production China could never hope to compete with. US does it on an industrial scale. :)