Why the United States Is Losing the Tech War With China | The U.S. position in the global value chain puts it at a disadvantage, and Washington’s confrontational policies are making things worse.
Why the United States Is Losing the Tech War With China | The U.S. position in the global value chain puts it at a disadvantage, and Washington’s confrontational policies are making things worse.
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Submission Statement: The outlook is not good for the USA on the development of this economic tug-of-war (I’m not sure if it’s a full trade war or just the beginnings of one) due to the circumstances that underpin both China and the USA going forward. The Article does acknowledge that the USA **starts** as the one with the advantage and China is the one climbing uphill, but those foundations are built on the past and are rapidly eroding. The USA’s private partners are uninterested in National Security outside of complying with the laws enough to keep their bottom line, while the Chinese companies are rallying behind Beijing because of a shared interest in making money and increasing the technological development of the country. It also says that the tighter the USA grips they will start losing leverage (see companies like KLA “de-Americanizing” operations to cut themselves loose from the sanctions regime).
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What nonsense. China will have a demographic collapse before America loses any ground to them.
All this while America locks China out of the semiconductor supply chain. This is technology far too complex for those copycat cheats
I thought this was a subreddit to discuss the science fiction subgenre cyberpunk, not real life.
Lmao
But we are winning in the not putting water in our missile fuel tanks war, so whatever.
What is cyberpunk about this?
The US prioritizing its companies’ short term profits to help a totalitarian police state by giving it unfettered access to technology would be worse in my view.
I’d say China is the one behaving “confrontationally”: threatening to invade Taiwan, breaking the treaty guarantees over Hong King’s autonomy, engaging in state-sponsored corporate espionage on a grand scale, propping up Russia’s economy to support its invasion, engaging in wolf warrior diplomacy over any criticism from abroad, requiring one-sided technology transfer agreements to do business in China, etc., etc. The more remarkable thing to me is that we let it go on for so long before taking action.