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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President Donald Trump discusses U.S. Section 301 Trade Investigations affecting global manufacturing outside the White House

U.S. Section 301 Trade Investigations Turn Global Industry Into A Tariff Battlefield

Washington Turns on the Tariff Spotlight and Declares Overproduction a New Threat to the Market The new wave of trade investigations launched by Washington once again demonstrates a persistent political-economic axiom of the world’s largest economy: free trade is wonderful—until it begins to work too successfully for someone else. As long as global markets serve…

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