Maybe it's vaporware, because I'm unaware of anything 'big' produced there. Maybe it's only lack of funding,lack of trust because non-standard and 'unproven', inertia? Who knows?
https://www.minimalfab.com/en/ with no outrageous claims about structure size equivalence, but way faster turn-around times for prototyping, and none of the usually necessary investment in all that clean-room tech.
And not to forget the push and incentive China got as 'development help' to be independent :-)
I'm sure they're up to many interesting things in the near future.
Sagt der Fürst zum Kirchenmann: "Halt Du sie dumm! Ich halt sie arm!"
(Says the King/Tsar/Count/some other 'noble person'/ruler to the Pope/Priest/some other cleric: "Keep them stupid! I keep them poor!" (By means of taxation, or similar))
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