They are among the biggest machines in the world: steel cylinders, some as long as a football field, armed with rotating discs that can chew through rock to clear the way for roads and railways. Known as tunnel boring machines, they are made by only a handful of companies, mostly in factories in China.
India uses them to dig tunnels, including in the Himalayas, to improve its ability to send troops to defend its contested border with China. But starting next month, Beijing is likely to be able to control whether India gets to buy them.
The machines are part of a broader effort by China to control what leaves Chinese factories and laboratories for foreign lands. In the past month, Beijing has moved to control the exports of dozens of technologies, including drones, artificial intelligence models and agents, and certain processes used to develop advanced medicines and to make solar panels. ‘New York Times’ By David Pierson and Berry Wang
Cheap goods has flooded America for decades and most of them have been made in China. It is no longer just toys at Wal Mart that flood in from Chinese factories, it is highly technical products like solar panels and prescriptions that are manufactured in China and a lot of the World cannot quickly replicate the process to make these products. Therefore, the dependence on Chinese products will continue for the foreseeable future.
