A look at how US pressure, driven by national security and trade concerns, has led to China seeking increased technological self-sufficiency
The acrimony between China and the US over technology transfers has created plenty of losers during the past year.
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@bentarnoff
Ben Tarnoff
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Github also happens to be where the http://996.icu campaign waged by Chinese tech workers against brutal working conditions organized itself. An unintended consequence for the CCP as they go deeper on open source, perhaps: https://github.com/...
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@yuanfenyang
Yuan Yang
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3/5 If that sounds alarming, it's because the US and Chinese governments' — or at least their security apparatuses' — fears over the other's tech have grown to encompass so much. The tech being targetted seems surprisingly indiscriminate on both sides.
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@yuanfenyang
Yuan Yang
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5/5 The route to self-sufficiency is long and some would argue impassable. But the strategies are fascinating: an embrace of non-US investments, open-source tech — paradoxically, to be self-sufficient China knows it needs to work with others.
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@yuanfenyang
Yuan Yang
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2/5 On this front, China's security hawks understand the US's security hawks completely, in my opinion. They know that the potential targets of US sanctions are not just ZTE or Huawei or AI start-ups, but all Chinese tech companies, and therefore Beijing needs to get ready.
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@yuanfenyang
Yuan Yang
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4/5 “Three years ago, there may have been more people thinking that we could rely on some US technologies rather than developing our own...Now if someone is still saying that, I suppose they have just been sleeping for the past three years,” one Chinese ICT expert told us
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@bentarnoff
Ben Tarnoff
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This is interesting: rising trade tensions with the US has pushed Chinese tech to consider relying more heavily on open source, which is exempt under US export controls. https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@financialtimes
@financialtimes
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There is one winner from the hostility between Washington and Beijing over technology transfers: Chinese security hawks who see decoupling as inevitable and are pushing Beijing to be more self-sufficient https://www.ft.com/...
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@yuanfenyang
Yuan Yang
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Just published a long read on China's response to the threat of US tech decoupling: a doubling down on self-sufficiency policies. China's hawks who warned two years ago that US sanctions on tech exports would spread are saying “I told you so”. @FT https://www.ft.com/... 1/5