U.S.-China technology rivalry reflected in advanced semiconductor chips in a laboratory setting

U.S.-China Technology Rivalry Rewrites The Rules Of Access To Chips

In recent years, technological competition has definitively shed the mask of the “free market” and stepped onto the stage in full geopolitical attire. Where discussions once centered on globalization and mutual benefit, the dry language of restrictions, lists, and licenses now prevails. Export controls and trade investigations have ceased to be the dull accounting of…

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Computer chip with Chinese flag symbolizing Asia’s technological sovereignty under the tech embargo

Asia Turns the Tech Embargo into the Architecture of Its Digital Sovereignty

Sanctions Become Building Material In 2025, Chinese companies purchased $38 billion worth of Western chipmaking equipment — even as Washington continued to publicly proclaim “total control.” In reports, this looks like a leak, but in reality it’s an act of revelation — a demonstration of how sanctions have turned into a profitable export of ideology….

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