Allowing one of America's most impressive tech companies to buy Chinese chips made by uh this CXMT company which is a very proficient maker of uh memory chips and does so at a pretty low price uh will be a huge leg up to China and therefore it will be countering America's broad strategy of trying to keep Chinese tech contained trying to keep its advance contained.
Hong Kong has always been a special case. It's designated as a special economic zone with China. It's got a high degree of autonomy, um, etc., etc., but now the US is treating Hong Kong pretty much as just another part of China.
China has captured America's most famous company. It's an extraordinary realization that Apple is worth about 3.7 trillion US dollars on the stock market, but it isn't really the company's shareholders that actually call the shots, at least not in China. In China, it's the Chinese government that calls the shots.
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