[win32k]

Everything in competition is about time and effort. No one cares if they figure it out 20 years down the road. It literally won't matter at that point, because the US will have much better by then. The world may be a different place, etc. It's all about the now.

[tsol]

>The world may be a different place, etc. It's all about the now.

And that new world could be dominated by a new technology. Truth is that yes, with enough resources they can catch up technologically as many nations have in the past. That's no big surprise really, being able to produce ones own chips is so useful for defense you'd expect China and India to have that on a priority list somewhere. It wouldn't give them any advantage over other world powers

[woevdbz]

I say "catch up" as in, covering the gap with where the US is by then. China has caught up in other fields already.