Can Huawei’s ‘chip queen’ with her Tau rule help China beat the US tech blockade

[James Mulherin]

Folks,

This is a post of an article from the Beijing government owned (since about 3-5 years back if I remember correctly) South China Morning Post.

But you may run into a paywall, esp. on a computer. I did not run into one when I first read the article from Google on my Android phone.

https://sc.mp/u8vx7

If you run into a paywall, I suggest as an alternative opening the Wikipedia page about the Huawei electrical engineer and manager, He Tingbo,  

The SCMP story of He Tingbo is meaningful as is, and it holds much more for us who want a future. 

An electrical engineer, Ms. He Tingbo built HiSilicon into an all around chip foundry thrust by history into a premier geopolitical cage match  with the US foreign policy mavens. The "Long March" is a metaphor for He. It is not only a metaphor. She is too close to the real life and death event.

Like we are observing now, commercial and system rivalry inspires maximum efforts that mirror previous technology imperial struggles like over cotton spinning and weaving--and slavery. And Civil War. And who gets to control Cuba down to today....

The old hegemon (think Britain, for example) restricts access to technology while the upstart (think the US) seeks inspiration and end runs. Then come forward in history to now.

I am fascinated by silicon (and related material battlegrounds like gallium arsenide) as an arena of struggle, but your imagination can conjure so many more.

Huawei is the tip of the spear for just one of China's efforts to rise.

I am interested in a bigger issue:

Can humans rise above the petty zero sum nature of past rivalries and discover brotherhood and sisterhood while we still have a blue 🔵 marble to share?

Jim - from my phone