The UN, under the UN charter, already recognizes the US unilateral sanctions as illegal, but the US can afford to maintain them to this day—despite annual calls by the actual international community to cease such policies—because the USD has been the dominant reserve currency for a long time.

Now that the world is increasingly becoming more multipolar and regional-based, the US and their satellites, in Europe and Asia, are panicking.

Capitalism is endless economic warfare, varying in intensity

It can quickly become a national security concern when you realize the people making the chips have total control over the systems built with them. Modern computing is built around the idea of "trusted computing" where certain pieces of hardware control the root of trust. There's also plenty of issues with backdoors (lookup intel ME if you're not familiar). The ability for the US to maintain its backdoors into foreign computing systems and preventing China from gaining that ability is the same cold war crap but in the cyber rather than the economic domain.

Not that we as communists give a single shit about “free market competition”, there is nothing wrong with a weaker nation using protectionist measures (although we must be clear about the fact that sanctions are not protectionism, they are the polar opposite, they are aggressive economic hybrid warfare) to prevent a stronger one overrunning their economy, but it shows the hypocrisy of their own neoliberal “free trade” mantra.

My understanding is that the "free market" is to prevent foreign nations from developing their economies by means of import-substitution industrialization, for the sake of domestic monopolies taking over the foreign nations' economies, like a parasite, and turning them into rent-extracting hosts.

In that case, it's in the interests of all peoples of the globe to reject this form of neo-colonialism—not just communists.

You're right but unfortunately it doesn't matter. The phrasing makes it SEEM like China did something bad, and that's the deepest most people who come across this headline will ever think about it. The goal is to make westerners ever so slightly more sympathetic towards aggression against the Chinese people, and these misleading or outright false articles are terribly effective.

Apparently, the problem is that US technology is present throughout SMIC operations; that, existing rules demand that companies that rely on US technology exports must seek prior consent before exchanging products that contain said technologies.

Regardless, it's a moot point. It's blatantly clear that the US is trying to suppress Chinese technological growth, so there's no long-term incentive to play by the US' rule.

Their phones are super cool. I actually have a matebook x pro laptop that's been awesome. At the time it had the specs of laptops that typically cost 30-50% more and a really nice design and 3:2 display

Same. That being said i won't be able to afford this high end model even if i do manage to find a way to import it, so i will just wait a few years until they make more mid range models with the same tech. Honestly it's no biggie, i've never been one to go in for the latest phone models and i don't really need a new phone right now anyway, my current one is several years old and still works just fine, and it's a Chinese brand too.

No, you see, communism is redfash so the evil tankie dictator would cooperate to make things worse for Chinese citizens because they’re an evil tankie dictator, so checkmate tankies

Exceptions are given to the companies who have connections to the state. I recall during trump’s trade war, there was a list published of companies who are exempt from tariffs.

because China violated the ego of US

until it suffers a catastrophic accident that's totally going to happen and then china will have to play catchup for at least ten years to reach the level that they're at now where, by then, they'll be far behind. lol

the sanctions were whatever we say shut up.