The Biden administration has launched a new broadside against China that could do far more damage to its economy than anything Trump contemplated. The ban will impede China’s ability to develop artificial intelligence, supercomputers, advanced weaponry and other crown jewels of the digital economy. Biden plans to treat China as more of a military and economic threat than any of his predecessors. The new controls are a “genuine landmark in US-China relations,” an analyst says. The U.S. government is now practicing a kind of economic containment strategy—subordinating trade and commerce to national security for the first time since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001 and became the “world’s factory” The trade war has been fraying since the Obama administration. . . .
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