I read somewhere that Soviet Union fell because it spent all its funds on projects like this. I wonder if this is beginning of the end or if they will be able to pull this off?
It might be a good sales pitch for “US-hardened equipment”.
Yes, but the Soviets were running their entire economy like that. China and the US do stupid thing like that with their military spending all the time but they're taking in resources from healthy civilian economies rather than sclerotic ones.
I'll just point out that "replace foreign vendors with domestic for security reasons" is exactly what the US is trying to do to Huawei. I think the US and China are equally capable of succeeding at this kind of project..
I'd say the Chinese are more capable of this than the US, if for no other reason than that's the place where almost all hardware and hardware components are already made.
It might be a good sales pitch for “US-hardened equipment”.