How American Technology Aids China's Global Ambitions
by Judith Bergman • December 7, 2021 at 5:00 am
US technology has enabled China to build and successfully test an advanced nuclear-able hypersonic missile that could... evade US missile-defense systems, and succeed in striking the US mainland.
Overall, billions of dollars have been raised for Chinese companies producing computer chips, according to the Rhodium investigation.
Apart from investments, US companies are supplying Chinese companies with the trained manpower to boost their own microchip industry. China is intensively recruiting senior engineers and executives from US companies and their China affiliates.
The semiconductor field in China is booming: More than 22,000 new semiconductor companies were reportedly registered in China in 2020, and another 4,350 in the first two months of 2021.
Even though many of those companies might ostensibly operate for civilian purposes, China operates a strict policy of civil and military fusion. That policy boils down to an all-of-society effort towards boosting China's military modernization through the use of all technological means at Chinese society's disposal....
China has made AI its highest priority, vowing to lead the field globally by 2030. Like semiconductors, AI is a dual-use technology, used for civilian
,as well as military purposes.In 2017, for instance, American company Synopsys set up a $100 million strategic investment fund for the Chinese market "to collaborate with local companies and venture capital in investing in the areas of chip design, artificial intelligence cloud-computing, software security and EDA tools."
In other words, American businesses rushing to invest in China -- a country openly dedicated to unseating the US and dominating the planet "economically, militarily and technologically" -- should have everyone worried.
US technology has enabled China to build and successfully test an advanced nuclear-capable hypersonic missile that experts and politicians fear could evade US missile-defense systems, and succeed in striking the US mainland.
"The People's Liberation Army now has an increasingly credible capability to undermine our missile defenses and threaten the American homeland with both conventional and nuclear strikes," said Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), member of the House Armed Services Committee. "Even more disturbing is the fact that American technology has contributed to the PLA's hypersonic missile program."
