They have lost indeed it to East Asia, surely they can make a cumback later on in a decade, but if Taiwan is lost and therefore TSMC, where will they fabricate their Nvidia GPU chips in TSMC quantities for their ((( Data is the new gold ))) AI applications in the meantime ?
Over confident fools breathing their own gas of "The End of History" since the 90s centralized all general purpose global manufacturing in China, majority of processor/GPU fabrication into Taiwan and DRAM fabrication to South Korea.
Chings have cracked the code for gas turbines and now the only obstacle to their autarkic supapowa status is state of the art semiconductor fabrication.
40 years of doing progressively filthier Mujra in front of the ((( Large Chinese Market ))) will only result in a massive L from the PRC in the future for the W*st