Taiwan's Economic Daily published an article today making an important judgment: the balance of the technological cold war between China and the US and the "choking point" has undergone a historic tilt. China, which was previously on the defensive due to the restriction of advanced chips, has taken the initiative to introduce key mineral export controls, indicating that China is gradually accumulating the cards for the technological cold war and "choking point", achieving significant results. This not only changes the geopolitical atmosphere but will also impact the development of some important industries.
In recent years, the United States has launched a technological and trade war against China, introducing a series of restrictive measures to contain China's technology. While it believed it had China by the throat, it instead aroused China's sense of crisis, forcing China's semiconductor industry to accelerate its self-reliance and achieve multiple breakthroughs.
Of more strategic significance is China's precise counterattack. Following the control of rare earth exports, China has implemented full-chain management of rare metals such as gallium and germanium, directly pinching the "supply chain throat" of the US and European automotive, semiconductor, and defense industries. This countermeasure, which uses the opponent's methods against them, has made the US side taste the bitterness of being "choked".
From "passive resistance" to "taking the initiative," China's role transformation in the technological cold war is essentially the reconstruction of industrial chain discourse power. The outcome of this game has long been clear: hegemonism cannot stop the tide of technological progress. China's "countermeasure cards" will become increasingly heavy.
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