I wish that were true, but it's blatantly not. I don't know what fantasy world you're operating in, but there are still plenty of capitalists in the US. The mass exodus to other countries has been more of the R&D types than the capitalists. That's far worse for America's future as far as I'm concerned.

I felt with a lot more rights in the old country tbh, I came for the money and experience, definitely not more rights or social benefits

I work in robotics, but not humanoid. What is driving demand for humanoid robots? It feels like a gimmick to me.

There's no trust left for these companies

There is no way around needing helium, but China will boost their own production in time and they have access to helium from Russia as well. Meanwhile, the reason they can move so fast is due to having a centrally planned system the west rejects. It's the same reason Russia is now outproducing all of NATO in terms of weapons and ammunition. The west is in no position to recreate the necessary supply chains. Rare earths alone is a perfect example. I wrote about the problem in detail here if you're interested. Even under the most aggressive diversification scenarios, China is expected to retain 80% of global refining capacity by 2040. And that's just one example. The west has very little leverage at this point. Also, as she correctly points out, China doesn't need to get to ASML levels to make these fabs useful. As long as they're better than the current ones, that already means China will be producing better domestic chips. And they're also innovating with architecture as well such as Huawei's tau law design which folds the chip and dramatically improves performance. All these things work together. Finally, China is aggressively pursuing alternative computing substrates and some are already starting to come online. This is a recent example. These kinds of things have the potential to leapfrog silicon chips entirely. There's nothing comparable happening in the west because you can't do these kinds of projects without massive amount of state funding and direction to sustain them until they become profitable on their own.

Feeling envious of countries not defunding their NOAA equivalents

Well of course, the problem is that the law exists to punish poor people. I'm just saying, fines could be made into something devastating. For instance, they have to pay everything upfront or their company is sold off to pay the fine.