India’s twin security dilemma: China’s Manhattan Project and Dhaka’s drift

As the year draws to a close, it appears to be ending on a similar note, with Beijing claiming a breakthrough in another critical technology—one that underpins AI itself. China has developed a prototype extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine—capable of producing cutting-edge semiconductor chips—inside a high-security laboratory in Shenzhen, southern China, according to a Reuters report. The massive, factory-sized system has reportedly been dubbed China’s “Manhattan Project”, a reference to the top-secret US effort during World War II to develop the atomic bomb ahead of Nazi Germany in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The development has profound implications for…