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China Looks at U.S. Tech-Limiting Measures and Sees Gunboat Diplomacy
Nov 20, 2018 | 10:00 GMT
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Highlights
- As China attempts to achieve technological parity for reasons of national security, the U.S. government will continue to deploy a wide array of tools against these efforts, particularly Beijing's attempts to obtain trade secrets illegally.
- These U.S. actions, however, will merely convince Beijing to break its dependence on Western technology by any means possible, since they vividly remind China about how a technologically superior West victimized it during the days of gunboat diplomacy.
- Fearful for its own future in the wake of Washington's actions, Russia will also strive to obtain technology by any means possible.
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