Russia's Valdai International Debate Club released a report titled "U.S. Technology Policy in the Context of China Competition" on November 30, local time, which wrote that U.S. sanctions cannot stop China's technological progress, but will only promote China's development of its own products. The authors of the report cite the example of China's Shanghai Microelectronics Equipment Group, which is developing a 28nm lithography machine that is scheduled to be available by the end of 2023. On this basis, the author argues that while the United States is restricting the export of semiconductors to China and trying to prevent China from developing the latest technology, it will only cause a large number of American companies to leave the Chinese market, and China will also give birth to competitive companies.
In fact, with the chain reaction brought about by Huawei's breakthrough in new machines, the United States is also deeply aware of this. But they still don't want to admit that China can break through the blockade and containment of the West. Plainly. The hegemonic mentality of the United States has caused them to be unable to save face and admit the reality of defeat. What the United States wants to do now is to continue to build more "barriers" against China in the field of technology, so as to achieve the goal of causing heavy damage to China's scientific and technological development, so as to save their image.
Bloomberg published an article on December 1 revealing that the United States has forced Saudi Aramco's venture capital firm Prosperity7** to take a stake in Silicon Valley artificial intelligence chip startup Rain AI, and reported that the forced withdrawal could have a broad impact on Saudi Arabia's growing investment in the U.S. technology industry.
As we all know, Saudi Arabia has recently increased its investment in the field of artificial intelligence, hoping to improve in this field, but why does the United States "force" Saudi Arabia to withdraw from Silicon Valley technology companies?Foreign media analysis believes that this is mainly related to the increasingly close relationship between Saudi Arabia and China. Last month, Saudi Arabia and China signed a local currency swap deal worth about $7 billion, while Saudi Aramco has injected significant capital into China's energy sector and sought partnerships with Chinese technology companies. In this context, the United States may be worried about the possibility of technology flow to China for American technology companies with a background of Saudi capital injection.
It is worth mentioning that if you have been paying attention to international news recently, it is not difficult to find that this is not the first time that the United States has committed similar acts. Not long ago, there was news from the West that the US Intelligence Agency and some other American agencies had issued warnings about the cooperation between G42, an artificial intelligence company in the UAE, and large Chinese companies such as Huawei. The Emirati technology company, called G42, actually has a very wide range of businesses, and has dealings with many companies in the East and the West. However, in the past few months, the US political circles have been playing up the threat of the company leaking key information such as US "advanced technology" and genetic data to China.
Of course, while the United States is pouring dirty water and hyping it up, it is also putting pressure on China on relevant policies. In the latest list of key and new technology restrictions recently issued by the United States, their 18 departments jointly listed 19 categories of lists for China, which are mainly reflected in three major aspects: First, semiconductors;The second is artificial intelligence;The third is the addition of finance, directed energy, hypersonic technology, etc. Among them, the restrictions in the field of semiconductors are naturally regarded as the top priority by the United States.
However, the United States' continuous generalization of politicization and politicization of economic and trade issues cannot stop the pace of China's technological advancement. Our technology can be built from scratch or from existing to new. While overcoming difficulties through traditional channels, we are also constantly innovating and seeking more possibilities. On November 30, China achieved a gratifying research result.
According to the Observer Network on December 1**, the international top academic journal "Nature" published the latest scientific research results of Professor Xu Wei's team at the School of Materials Science of Tongji University, which successfully synthesized two new carbon molecular materials (carbon allotropes) for the first time, namely aromatic cyclic carbon C10 and C14, and finely characterized their chemical structures, and these two synthetic novel carbon structures are expected to be applied to future molecular electronic devices. We may not know much about this overly specialized description, but in more popular terms, the research results are expected to provide new materials for China's semiconductors, and also provide a new perspective for China's development. This shows that the United States' suppression and encirclement of China has been in vain after all, and with our talent reserves and economic strength, everything has broad hope and a bright future.