Expert: US-China Science and Technology War Hard to End, Trump Has Disrupted Status Quo for Decades | TechNews

It is not yet clear whether US President-elect Joe Biden will continue the Trump administration’s challenges to China’s tech industries and companies through tariffs and administrative orders. Experts believe that Biden may continue the route of Donald Trump, because “Bullet has left the chamber.” The allies cooperate.

CNBC reported on the 29th that Abishur Prakash, a geopolitical expert at the Toronto-based consulting agency Center for Innovating the Future (CIF), said by email that the bullet had come out of the barrel and Trump completely disrupted the status quo of decades in the United States and China.

Prakash believes that Biden is likely to continue Trump’s approach and try to kick Chinese companies out of the global 5G mobile network. The truth is that when Biden is in power, the science and technology war between the United States and China will not end because the United States does not have many options. If not to allow China to dominate the world through technology, it will try to challenge it.

Adam Segal, director of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Cyber ​​and Digital Security Policy Program, said the Biden administration still views technology as an important competitiveness and is expected to continue to be part of Trump’s policies. Cut the thread of delivering key technologies to China. The difference is that the Biden administration will cooperate with the private sector and its allies at the same time, focusing more on a limited range of technologies.

Paul Triolo, director of the geotechnical practice department at Eurasia Group, a risk advisory organization, also said that Biden’s management should clarify which emerging and core technologies need to be controlled. Some areas are expected to include artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, etc. Biden’s team tends to reduce the number of technologies that must be controlled, but it has built a high wall on key technologies that are critical to national security.

The Nikkei Asian Review analyzed on October 20 that the Biden camp did not have a deep focus on how to counter Chinese tech companies and whether to retain Trump’s tough measures to blacklist entities like Huawei. The foreign policy co-written by former diplomat Kurt Campbell and Biden’s adviser Jake Sullivan in 2019 provides some clues. The two said at the time that the United States should try to defend its technological advantages against the theft of intellectual property rights and subsidies for industries by China. They called on Washington to restrict investment in science and technology and trade activities between the two countries, but stressed the need for selective implementation and only target science and technology related to national security or human rights.

(This article is reprinted with permission from MoneyDJ News; the source of the first image: shutterstock)

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