It appears that the combination of the CHIPS & Science Act, the sweeping crackdown on semiconductor and chip-making equipment sales, and the National Security Strategy represents the most forceful effort by any American administration to counter China's growing global, technological projection of power. But will it work? Here are some of the issues and I'd be curious how others assess them: --Can the Department of Commerce and other U.S. government entities gear up the necessary experise and staffing levels to pull this off? Can the U.S. government foster greater inter-agency collaboration in pursuit of these goals? --Will the U.S. private sector cooperate? The Center for Security and Emerging Technologies has reported that Applied Materials and other U.S. companies have set up shop in places such as Singapore so they can make gear that has no Amercan-sourced parts and continue selling to the PRC. --Will other key players among the techno-democracies go along or are they offended that the Americans have taken such unilateral action? One interesting twist is that maybe some of them are relieved the Americans have taken these steps. They can claim they had no choice but to comply. What are the crowd's thoughts?