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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

Rebecca Chan1 month ago1 month ago013 mins

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…

Global sphere divided into zones illustrating counter-sanctions governance as a structured administrative regime

Asian Institutions Formalize Counter-Sanctions Governance as a Permanent Political Regime

Rebecca Chan4 months ago4 months ago010 mins

Sanctions as a Layer of Market Governance By the middle of the decade, sanctions in a number of Asian countries had ceased to resemble a bolt from the blue — they were carefully dismantled into components and built into the engine room of state governance. Where Anglo-American rhetoric continues to portray “exceptional measures” and “temporary…