An employee demonstrates a wearable AI-powered bionic hand at the JD Global Technology Discovery Conference in Beijing, Nov. 25, 2020. China must mobilise the nation’s private businesses to reduce reliance on foreign technologies, says a top policy adviser. Photo: Xinhua
An employee demonstrates a wearable AI-powered bionic hand at the JD Global Technology Discovery Conference in Beijing, Nov. 25, 2020. China must mobilise the nation’s private businesses to reduce reliance on foreign technologies, says a top policy adviser. Photo: Xinhua

US-China tech war: Beijing’s top policy official lays out strategy to address Washington’s ‘stranglehold’ over China

  • It was Beijing’s ‘inevitable choice’ to seek a greater level of tech independence when the US was imposing restrictions on China, said policy chief Jiang Jinquan
  • The article, published just days after US President Joe Biden took office, sheds light on the Chinese leadership’s thinking about the country’s tech future

An employee demonstrates a wearable AI-powered bionic hand at the JD Global Technology Discovery Conference in Beijing, Nov. 25, 2020. China must mobilise the nation’s private businesses to reduce reliance on foreign technologies, says a top policy adviser. Photo: Xinhua
An employee demonstrates a wearable AI-powered bionic hand at the JD Global Technology Discovery Conference in Beijing, Nov. 25, 2020. China must mobilise the nation’s private businesses to reduce reliance on foreign technologies, says a top policy adviser. Photo: Xinhua
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