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China May Not Need Western Technology Much Longer
10Apr By adminNo Comments
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China May Not Need Western Technology Much Longer

[ad_1] Western countries have become increasingly wary of sharing technology with China, with the US and Netherlands recently imposing new restrictions on exports of semiconductors and the equipment used to make them. Meanwhile, Chinese companies are rising up the list of the world's biggest spenders on research and development — a sign that perhaps they won't need that Western technology much longer.When I last compiled one of these lists five years ago, mobile infrastructure and device maker Huawei Investment & Holding Co. was in sixth place behind Microsoft, just as it is here, but it was the only Chinese company in the global top 25. It has been joined by TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd., WeChat owner and gaming giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. and e-commerce, payments and cloud-computing...
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Ban on US Persons at China Chip Firms Thwarts China Prez Xi Jinping’s Key Ambition
17Oct By adminNo Comments
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Ban on US Persons at China Chip Firms Thwarts China Prez Xi Jinping’s Key Ambition

[ad_1] China will speed its efforts to build talent and win the battle to develop homegrown tech, Xi Jinping pledged. China will speed its efforts to build a legion of talent and win the battle to develop homegrown technologies, President Xi Jinping pledged at the Communist Party's twice-a-decade congress on Sunday. But new US restrictions issued a week earlier are already undercutting those plans.The Biden administration's latest salvo of sanctions includes restrictions on so-called US persons supporting the development, production or use of integrated circuits at some chip plants located in China. Effective Oct. 12, the measures are broad enough to encompass holders of US green cards as well as US residents and American citizens, capturing a wide swath of senior executives at Chines...
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Joe Biden’s Chip-Export Controls Designed to Give US an Advantage Over China
14Oct By adminNo Comments
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Joe Biden’s Chip-Export Controls Designed to Give US an Advantage Over China

[ad_1] The new rules laid out last week stem from US concerns that China can use AI to improve military capabilities. The Biden administration's restrictions on semiconductor technology exports to China are designed to help the US maintain as large a lead in technology as possible over rivals, said an official, who also addressed national security concerns such as China's efforts to develop artificial intelligence that has military uses.The new rules laid out last week stem from US concerns that China can use AI to improve military capabilities, support surveillance for human rights abuses and “disrupt or manufacture outcomes that undermine democratic governance and sow social unrest,” Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration Thea D. Rozman Kendler told an audience on...
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China accuses US of ‘tens of thousands’ of cyberattacks
6Sep By adminNo Comments
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China accuses US of ‘tens of thousands’ of cyberattacks

[ad_1] Beijing on Monday accused the United States of launching "tens of thousands" of cyberattacks on China and pilfering troves of sensitive data, including from a public research university.Washington has accused Beijing of cyberattacks against US businesses and government agencies, one of the issues over which ties between the two powers have nosedived in recent years. China has consistently denied the claims and in turn lashed out against alleged US cyber espionage, but has rarely made public disclosures of specific attacks. But a report released Monday by its National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) accused the US National Security Agency (NSA) of carrying out "tens of thousands of malicious attacks on network targets in China in recent years"...
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