Month: December 2024

China’s DNA Problem

Production has long been the focus of modern China. This dates to the early days of state-directed central planning in the 1950s, when Mao Zedong borrowed heavily from the Stalinist economics template of the former Soviet Union. China’s State Planning Agency was...

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China’s Trump Cards

In a long overdue move, the US has just updated its restrictions on high-bandwidth memory chips and the foreign direct product rule for semiconductor manufacturing equipment, while also adding another 140 Chinese companies to the Commerce Department’s entity list. As...

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