Dutch didn’t, not alone, far from that.

As opposed to the chinese, who are completely alone, all 1.whatever billion of them.

which are[…]largely self-reliant in the matter

You just fucking said it required cooperation you dumb cum juggler, now you’re saying they failed despite not cooperating?

I didn’t write that they “wouldn’t be able to”

I cannot sufficiently describe how much I hate your stupid reddit tier “um, akshumally I didn’t use those exact words therefore you’re completely misrepresenting what I said!” You won’t shut up about how hard and difficult and borderline impossible it is and you want me to believe you’re not trying to say they won’t be able to? You’re certainly not arguing that they will.

if China wants to meet the ever growing domestic demand (either military or civil), China need fabs churning chips reliably.

That’s not what commercially viable mean, buddy.