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The China-US Chip War

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-64143602

the world’s two biggest economies are battling over another precious resource: semiconductors…These tiny fragments of silicon are at the heart of a $500bn industry that is expected to double by 2030. And whoever controls the supply chains – a tangled network of companies and countries that make the chips – holds the key to being an unrivalled superpower.

China wants the technology to produce chips. That’s why the US, a source of much of the tech, is cutting Beijing off.

“What you find historically is that whenever powerful countries have advanced computing technology, they deploy them to intelligence and military systems,”