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House Passes Bill Adding Billions to Research to Compete With China
The U.S. is getting tougher on China, after the House passed a new China competition bill that would pour nearly $300 billion into scientific research and domestic manufacturing, per the New York Times. U.S. officials have also called for “concrete action” from China to fulfill its commitment to the “Phase 1” trade deal signed under the Trump administration, Reuters reports.
Editor’s note for Thursday, January 27, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Is the World Trade Organization back in play? The European Union launched a case against China at the WTO over Beijing’s trade pressure on Lithuania. Meanwhile, the trade body ruled in China’s favor in a decade-long dispute with the U.S. Separately, U.S. senators urged the Biden administration to act after a new report found that Chinese censorship had hurt companies like Google and Apple.
Shanghai offers big subsidies to attract chip talent and investment
Shanghai to subsidize chipmaking: A policy document published today says the Shanghai government will subsidize up to 30 percent of investment — up to a total of 100 million yuan ($15 million) — in semiconductor materials, equipment, and chip software projects.
What’s Behind China’s Regulatory Storm
Scholar Barry Naughton comments on China’s “regulatory storm”: “The reality is that many of the Chinese actions have a reasonable regulatory rationale, and can be easily defended on an individual basis. But taking a broader view, there is no question that the latest government actions represent a substantial expansion of the power of the government and the Chinese Communist Party,” Naughton writes in the Wall Street Journal. “This new hyperpoliticized reality is likely to do long-term damage to the performance of the Chinese economy and certainly poses new risks to investors and business operators.”
What did Apple get out of its secret, $275 billion China deal in 2016?
In the spring of 2016, Apple CEO Tim Cook successfully lobbied Chinese officials to make a massive five-year deal, committing the company to invest billions in the Chinese economy. The Information, which revealed the existence of the deal, says that it helped Apple secure multiple regulatory exemptions and become the top-selling smartphone brand in China.
Three Takeaways From China’s New Standards Strategy
Three key takeaways for how China sets technical standards: Matt Sheehan, Marjory Blumenthal, and Michael Nelson write for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about Beijing’s “plans to reshape a vast array of technical standards that shape the products and services that consumers around the world rely on.” They find three things: China is allowing industry to have a greater role in developing technical standards; China is still using standards to implement “brute-force upgrading of the technologies in its industrial base,” whereas other countries use them in more minor roles; and China is looking to “align 85 percent of its domestic standards with international standards” — what other countries may see not as welcome synchronization, but as an effort by China to “force its own standards on the rest of the world.”
‘Industrial Policy’ Is Back: The West Dusts Off Old Idea to Counter China
An approach long criticized as inefficient is being adopted by the U.S. and its allies to directly fund critical sectors such as semiconductors. One spur is the security gap exposed by the pandemic.
U.S. Senate plans to spend hundreds of billions to counter China
China is America’s “greatest geopolitical and geoeconomic challenge” according to the Senate, which passed a bill to spend more than $250 billion to ensure that the U.S.A. stays on top. But will it work?
China’s Rise Drives a U.S. Experiment in Industrial Policy
In a different era the U.S. may have quietly let chip making migrate overseas, as it had with televisions, laptop computers and cellphones. What has changed? China.
China’s top economic policy priorities for 2021 — according to the Two Sessions
China pledges to invest more on technology innovation, put stronger hands on Big Tech, and get started on its climate goals.
Fear of a red tech planet — why the U.S. is suddenly afraid of Chinese innovation
Americans are as wrong in their overestimations of Chinese innovation today as they were in their underestimation just a few years ago.
‘New infrastructure’ — China’s race for 5G and networked everything has a new catchphrase
China’s government is hyping the concept of “new infrastructure” — the massive deployment of 5G, industrial internet, and networked everything. What exactly are Beijing’s plans, and will U.S. sanctions on Huawei and other Chinese firms put the kibosh on them?
"Made in China 2025" Unmade? - MacroPolo
Eliot Chen was an inaugural MacroPolo Summer Associate, where he spent 10 weeks in Chicago conceptualizing and executing on this project. Eliot is now completing his studies at Princeton University, where he is majoring in political science. The analysis and findings are solely his. All questions and follow-ups should be directed to Eliot at eliotchen@princeton.edu. … Continue reading ““Made in…
China wants to launch the next SpaceX
China's regulators are catching up with their country's booming private space business.
Evolving Made in China 2025
Four years ago, China launched its ambitious industrial strategy Made in China 2025 and caused considerable irritation around the world. The blueprint for China’s path to becoming an industrial superpower has changed the way foreign companies, business associations, and governments view the country. They increasingly perceive the People’s Republic more as a systemic rival than a partner. Made in…
Beijing Drops Contentious ‘Made in China 2025’ Slogan, but Policy Remains
“Made in China 2025,” a government-led industrial program at the center of the contentious U.S.-China trade dispute, is officially gone—but in name only.
Made in China 2025: The domestic tech plan that sparked an international backlash
One Chinese policy connects a number of American complaints about China’s economic practices, and has come to represent the true heart of the U.S.-China trade war: the Made in China 2025 initiative.
