> Being a high value-add area is endogenous to how hard it is for others i.e. China to reproduce. In other words, if it were easy to make GPUs they wouldn't be so damn expensive.

China's going to put the money into making GPUs, and they're going to get it right, probably sooner than later. Then they'll drive the American manufacturers out of business, like they've done in many areas before. Their government isn't beholden to the profit-focused capitalist attitude that is one of the West's biggest vulnerabilities.

Also, it's pretty foolish to 1) forget power and security doesn't come from rarefied high value-add stuff, 2) that there are a lot of people that can't be employed doing stuff like making GPUs.