The sanctions also seem to have done a great job accelerating Chinese mainland semiconductor technology. Before the sanctions most mainland companies were happy having their chips fabbed by TSMC

> The sanctions are here to stay. The USA wants to make China capitulate. There is an economic war against China. When you cannot win by merit, you invent excuses to slap sanctions.

There are two types of games: finite games and infinite games.

Finite games have fixed rules, a winner and loser, etc.

Infinite games don't have fixed rules, conventions are just conventions to be tested/broken, and the goal is not to win but to stay in the game for as long as possible.

Most games in the real world are infinite games. "Winning by merit" is a finite game not an infinite one.