The Great U.S.-China Tech War
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Beijing was not considered a tech contender a decade ago. Now, some call it a leader. America is already behind in critical areas.
It is no surprise how Chinese leaders made their regime a tech powerhouse. They first developed and then implemented multiyear plans and projects, adopting a determined, methodical, and disciplined approach. As a result, China’s political leaders and their army of technocrats could soon possess the technologies of tomorrow.
America can still catch up. Unfortunately, Americans, focused on other matters, are not meeting the challenges China presents. A whole-of-society mobilization will be necessary for the U.S. to regain what it once had: control of cutting-edge technologies. This is how America got to the moon, and this is the key to winning this century.
Americans may not like the fact that they’re once again in a Cold War–type struggle, but they will either adjust to that reality or get left behind.
Gordon G. Chang
Gordon G. Chang, who lived and worked in Asia for almost two decades, is the author of Losing South Korea, Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World, and The Coming Collapse of China.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good introduction to technology issues that impact the future economy and national security of the U.S., China and their global partners.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5One suggestion that would make sense is to point out the fact as a deficit economy America should plough trillions of money into financing its tech industry as a sure way to counter the Chinese dragon. This will be money well spent as opposed to borrowing for the purpose of financing the unending and unwinable wars it’s been involved in.
One sure good point I picked up was the American system of anti trust laws. On the face of it this seems good practice of discouraging monopolies to outgrow competitors but faced with China and Huawei a company such as Qualcomm should be allowed to grow even exponentially as a way to deny the Chinese outright control of telecoms networks in particular 5G.
On the main I’d say this is a good book brief and to the point. If only the American government would take the advice and act on it. A lot depends on how America will Chanel the discourse in the coming years
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The Great U.S.-China Tech War - Gordon G. Chang
THE U NITED S TATES and China are locked in a cold tech war,
and the winner will end up dominating the twenty-first century.
Beijing was not considered a tech contender a decade ago. Now, some call it a leader. America is already behind in critical areas.
It is no surprise how Chinese leaders made their regime a tech powerhouse. They first developed and then implemented multiyear plans and projects, adopting a determined, methodical, and disciplined approach. As a result, China’s political leaders and their army of technocrats could soon possess the technologies of tomorrow.
America can still catch up. Unfortunately, Americans, focused on other matters, are not meeting the challenges China presents. A whole-of-society mobilization will be necessary for the U.S. to regain what it once had: control of cutting-edge technologies. This is how America got to the moon, and this is the key to winning this century.
Americans may not like the fact that they’re once again in a Cold War–type struggle, but they will either adjust to that reality or get left behind.
5G AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS
Nowhere is America so far behind China as in the race to build the world’s next – the fifth – generation of wireless telecommunications networks.
Not since the invention of gunpowder has China led the world in the introduction of a disruptive new technology, and the United States still can’t believe that it has been leapfrogged,
wrote David Goldman, the American writer and thinker, in Tablet in March 2019, referring to 5G. For years the conventional wisdom held that the Chinese only could copy but not innovate. That wisdom has now been proven wrong.
The Chinese have raced ahead in 5G in large part because they made it a central plank
of their industrial planning process, including it in both the 13th Five-Year Plan, which covers the half-decade ending in 2020, and the Made in China 2025 initiative. Chinese technocrats announced the addition of 5G to CM2025, as the now-notorious plan is known in China, in January 2018. Chinese leader Xi Jinping also made 5G a part of his Belt and Road Initiative when in May 2017 he announced the Digital Silk Road.
Wireless will feature prominently in the 14th Five-Year Plan, on the drafting board now.
A whole-of-society mobilization will be necessary for the U.S. to regain control of cutting-edge technologies.
There is a prize for the country controlling tomorrow’s wireless communication networks. According to forecaster Stratfor, 5G is nothing less than "the technology that will drive the world’s economy in the