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Aug 2023
34m 8s

The Sunday Read: ‘The Silicon Blockade’

The New York Times
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Last October, the United States Bureau of Industry and Security issued a document that, underneath its 139 pages of dense bureaucratic jargon and minute technical detail, amounted to a declaration of economic war on China. The magnitude of the act was made all the more remarkable by the relative obscurity of its source. In recent years, semiconductor chips ... Show More
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