The Analysis of the US’s Technology Policy toward China

Abstract

Since the late period of the US Obama administration, the US and China’s competitions have spread from military diplomacy to trade and science and technology. As the brain of modern electronic devices, the semiconductors have a wide range of applications in various industries. So far, the US semiconductor technology issue against China has become the key axis of the current Biden administration’s anti-China policy. Under the policy line of technology resistance against China, the United States and the global semiconductor industry are facing both opportunities and challenges under the strategy of “building high walls” and “multilateral alliances”. To maintain its significant leading position in semiconductor key technologies, the United States should support the development of independent core technologies and standards through national policies in the semiconductor industry, while looking for major domestic and foreign semiconductor allies, industry, academia, and research and development stakeholders. It is also important for the US to observe the continuous innovation of Chinese private technology enterprises, the development of truly independent core technologies of China, the development of digital economic industry of China, as well as the Chinese government policies towards international restrictions in the face of suppression from US.