The Ukraine Question

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Russia is still defying sanctions by trading with China.

Bloomberg

Japan Times

And that apparently includes machinery and electronics. Early in the war, lots of articles reported that Russian imports of technological goods like machinery, cars, and electronics had plummeted. But China is apparently filling that gap, and Chinese businesses are getting better at skirting sanctions. Trade in Yuan, which is outside the purview of the United States, has surged. Al Jazeera

I couldn't find anything concerning trade in microchips, though. Chinese chips aren't as good as Western ones, although they're getting there. They've developed a ~5nm transistor design but still lack in the ability to miniaturize transistors to that level (Al Jazeera) and have to rely on Taiwan. I'd love to find out more about Chinese CPU architectures (how good is their simultaneous multithreading, SIMD, etc.).