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Interesting. China(and Russia, for somewhat different reasons) has kind of ignored BRICS since 2016-7, just paying lip service to it (something that isn't good for Brazil, who's the country that gains the most with BRICS and may very well be its most enthusiastic supporter). China looking back...

They might be able to go further in the future, but I expect the gap between leading-edge tech and them to grow wider. I don't think that disinfo is likely.

It is. But their inability to go further is something that should bring trouble in the future.

My understanding(the Asianometry channel on YouTube did a video on the Russian chip manufacturing recently) is that they were beyond lab production only for 65nm, but whether they have gone to full mass-production, I'm not sure(also, see Butch R. Mann's answer above). The above-mentioned...

A bit more than a decade behind(I think the best they can do is 65nm chips, which is a... 2009 technology, IIRC). But, yes, good enough for many purposes. I don't know if these manufacturers can sustain production, though - I don't know how much of their tools and manufacturing equipment is...