It just seems like common sense that if you impose sanctions, tariffs, embargoes, etc. at a wide enough scale to a determined enough "adversary", they will just become more resilient, self-sufficient, and antagonistic than they were if simply left alone.
I don't know the answers to the questions of international cooperation and economic imbalances, but I am pretty confident that this is not the way. I haven't seen sufficient evidence to the contrary.
All of that being said, it's great to see a new operating system that (if I understand correctly) isn't just derived from an existing one.
This is true but it's also true in this instance that the adversary was already antagonistic and was moving towards self-sufficiency at their own pace while using your technology to do so.
The reasoning behind cutting them off through the methods you listed is to force them to move to self-sufficiency on your terms without as much access to your technology.
I'm not sure what technology you have in mind here. Correct if this is wrong, but China has required for transfer of technology when some business wanted to produce on its territory and has produced basically everything we can think of under the sun.
As the famous roll pen examplify, China can definitely make high tech products and it's more a question if economical relevance whether they will intensify in that direction
Huawei has been under US export restriction since 2019 IIRC because they were violating US sanctions against Iran, which is why they could not continue licensing Windows, and I presume is why they went down the path to create their own desktop operating system.
Is that so? Quite the speculation. USA restricted their telecom equipment because USA doesn't trust their radio and think it might have backdoors specially with their close relationship to China's military. Well, every accusation is a confession, so China feels the same about Windows, that USA might have backdoor in it too due to Microsoft's association with US military so they need something that is not windows too. This is my own speculation ...
I don't know the answers to the questions of international cooperation and economic imbalances, but I am pretty confident that this is not the way. I haven't seen sufficient evidence to the contrary.
All of that being said, it's great to see a new operating system that (if I understand correctly) isn't just derived from an existing one.