What if the state itself doesn't follow those laws?

The laws of Western states that the West only selectively follows? Gee...

Buddy, do you know what you're talking about? It really sounds like you don't.

The fuck is a RISC-ARM?

Why kill someone when you can just force them to retire?

SMIC lacked investment for ages and they're all dependent on ASML (until sanctions got the Chinese government to throw billions into building domestic EUV lithography capability, I guess).

Ah yes, because the Russians will certainly decide to pick a fight with NATO... As if the US hasn't already described their willingness to use nuclear weapons offensively.

None of that matters for compute, though. I agree that a lot of people design MOSFETs and sensors in China... That's not really relevant in terms of computational capacity. Neither is the capacity to manufacture capacitors and resistors. Neither is the capacity to manufacture small microelectronics because the compute done on them is negligible.

People talk about semiconductors in terms of the computational gap exposed by smaller technology nodes.

China doesn't pretend that their media is unbiased, though. There's no aura of unbiased media in China. Meanwhile, Facebook's head of global threat intelligence, is literally a US intelligence plant (and most of the authors on his Meta adversarial threat reports are ex- or current US intelligence). Meta is just the most memorable example, which is why I'm picking on them. Given the algorithmic nature of news delivery nowadays, how much influence would you guess US intelligence has on what news people see?

Xiao Qiang at UC Berkeley did a study before the VPN crackdown and estimated that there are about 10 million DAUs (daily active users) of firewall-flipping VPNs in the country. DAU/MAU is usually between 20%-50%, so that gives 20-50 million people with VPN access monthly (2-5% of internet users). Last October, China clamped down on some VPNs, but then the user counts for those VPNs that were still working skyrocketed.

Anyway, these numbers are actually really quite high:

Bing has 100 million DAUs worldwide. Reddit has about 55 million DAUs worldwide. LinkedIn has about 22 million DAUs in the US. Twitter has about 54 million MAUs in the US. Threads has about 8 million DAUs worldwide (though probably less now, lol). 1-5% penetration of total users in terms of usage is indicative of very high awareness. Other options include using a HK SIM (widely available) and a VPS (harder to setup). I have no idea what kind of market penetration these methods have.

The marginal GHG from a thicker bag is completely and entirely negligible. The waste footprint is outsized given the GHG footprint.

Things don't have to be good in Europe to be worse in America.

Who cares about GHG for bags? The goal is to reduce waste, so you should evaluate it based on the amount of materials used.

The Global South is disproportionately affected by climate change and disproportionately ignored by Western powers. People go and say "oh no why are they opening another coal power plant?" but don't consider what other options they might have. China's been leading the development of solar panels, wind turbines, and SMRs, but they can barely meet domestic electricity demand nevermind international exports to the fastest-growing economies in the world.