I’m usually one to attack the “china bad” crowd but the OP isn’t wrong unfortunately.

It requires immense connections throughout the world (namely Netherlands for etching and USA for schematics).

The argument is honestly “the yellow people are so disliked via western influence that the other white counties won’t sell them tech to make chips”

Chips = military power; and clearly the west doesn’t like the idea of helping China. Is that right? Nah. Was OP being racist? I don’t think so tbh.