China's robots are targeted, U.S. government issues ban, prohibiting companies from using Chinese products under sanctions
The United States' national security is truly not just generally "fragile"—anything can be deemed a "threat" to it.
According to Reuters, on the 28th, the U.S. government announced a ban on importing Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters, citing the ever-familiar justification of "protecting national security."
China is currently the world’s largest producer of inverters, and in the commercial robotics sector, it is rapidly capturing market share. Therefore, this U.S. ban essentially amounts to blocking these two types of Chinese-made products from entering the domestic market, forcing American companies to purchase expensive "domestically produced alternatives."
It should be noted that in recent years, a clear trend has emerged: every time China achieves a substantive breakthrough in a high-tech field long monopolized by the United States, the stock prices of corresponding U.S. tech giants on Wall Street tend to plummet accordingly.
Faced with this reality, the U.S. is fully aware but unwilling to accept it openly. Instead, it chooses the laziest response—erecting market access barriers to keep Chinese products out, as if simply ignoring them would make China’s technological advances disappear.
However, such self-deceiving bans cannot preserve America’s technological hegemony. Companies deprived of external competitive pressure will merely rest on their laurels, enjoying complacency. Over time, technological iteration slows, R&D investment decreases, and the entire industrial chain falls into a vicious cycle: the more protected, the more backward; the more backward, the greater the dependence on protection.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1872032691380489/
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