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Chinese Nationalists Worry About Reliance on U.S.

By Shai Oster
· · Source: The Wall Street Journal

During a cyberspace conclave this past weekend, Chinese President Xi Jinping urged his countrymen to close the tech gap with the U.S. It’s not the first time he’s pushed China to catch up with the west on core tech such as semiconductors. But the recent U.S. ban of Chinese smartphone maker ZTE from using U.S. tech added urgency to the government’s “Made in China 2025” policy. Chinese nationalists...

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