As an adult, we all know that before you do something, you have to think about the consequences. The same is true for a country: before formulating a policy of sanctioning other countries, it must first consider whether it will lead to retaliation, and should do as little as possible to "kill a thousand enemies and lose 800 yourself".
But from the development and changes of the Russia-Ukraine conflict for more than a year, we can see that the United States is a country that does things recklessly, or in other words, it always thinks that its strength is strong in advance, so it imagines the result to be ideal, but in the end it will always be slapped in the face by the cruel facts.
At the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the United States and its allies adopted pre-designed and fierce sanctions against Russia, and the United States **Yellen even arrogantly shouted that kicking Russia out of the SWIFT system, which is a financial nuclear bomb. But the result is that the United States and the West are more deeply involved in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, not only Russia has not been defeated, but has made European countries deeply affected by the backlash of sanctions, which is not only an economic mess, but also caused serious domestic riots.
Now the United States and the West are facing an embarrassing situation: once they reduce all kinds of aid to Ukraine, it will be tantamount to supporting Russia's victory in disguise, and even more wasted their previous hundreds of billions of dollars in aid.
It can be seen from this that the current ** of the United States has no brains and does things regardless of the consequences.
So let's return to this topic now, is it because the United States and its allies are frantically suppressing us in the field of chips, is it because the United States has already considered dealing with all the consequences?When the United States tried to force us into a desperate situation where there were no high-end chips available, did it already consider in advance that there would be a ** crisis of germanium and gallium?
Does this mean that the United States has found an independent solution to germanium and gallium?Even if you unite your allies to solve this problem, is it?
However, judging from the later reaction to our announcement of export controls on germanium and gallium, rare semiconductor materials, not only Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands did not prepare in advance, but even the United States was caught off guard. He didn't expect our counterattack to be so tough, and it was very "steady, accurate, and ruthless", as if it had hit a snake seven inches.
This is tantamount to suddenly adding a difficult problem to Yellen, who is about to visit China, and adding a new substantive topic to be solved urgently during her visit to China. This will make the United States very passive, disrupt the previous deployment, and weaken Yellen's fighting spirit, if it continues to treat China arbitrarily, it will be self-inflicted.