The technological war waged by the United States against China has the potential to backfire, supercharging China’s creation of an independent computer chip industry that would directly compete with American manufacturers.
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has employed increasingly restrictive sanctions to prevent American and allied chip manufacturers from selling their most advanced products to China.
These restrictions are aimed at preventing China’s military from developing more sophisticated weapons. However, the People’s Liberation Army uses very few high-tech chips. The tech war seems designed to cripple China’s overall technological development and, by extension, its economic growth and prosperity.
