The Brits just can't get over how China threw them out, can they? Ending reliance on foreign-made products is just smart public safety if you're caucasian, but if you're an inscrutable oriental, it's for dark and terrible reasons.
However, it's not clear at this point what, if any, support will be provided to its telcos to offset the cost of replacing foreign chips with homegrown silicon.
They literally did a "but at what cost". Pathetic.
Watching neoliberal globalization come crashing down because the west is so fucking paranoid and imperialist they can'y stop fucking with the country that makes all their stuff is really funny. They won, they won everything, it was the end of history! And now they've fucked it up so bad they're going to have to re-build all their domestic industries or die and it is a 150% self own.
No way they'll rebuild industries in the West. Those are dead and too costly.
They'll probably try to replace China with a non-Communist, hyper-Capitalist client state like India. But India is part of BRICS and may be moving away from that type of relation, so they might have to find someone else. Just move most industry there. Hopefully the same shit happens again though. It is a total self-own.
Meanwhile the Yanks are scrambling to build chip fabs on home soil (and failing miserably) because they're very aware that depending on their occupation of Taiwan for their chips isn't going to last much longer and the missile production must never stop!
And slightly related to this post, if anyone ever asks you why the Yanks are so invested in Taiwan, just show them this video of someone disassembling a Javelin anti-tank missile's guidance computer. Pretty much every single chip inside that thing is made in Taiwan.