For the U.S. and China, a Technology Cold War That’s Freezing Over<br />The “Eight Guardian Warriors,” as they were called — Apple, Cisco, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle<br />and Qualcomm — had been able to “drive right into China,” the article said, whereas Huawei and another Chinese equipment maker, ZTE, had been kept out of the United States.<br />“The U. S. and China have so intertwined their science and technology systems through trade and investment and cooperative research —<br />but see each other, and continue to see each other, as strategic competitors and adversaries,” said Adam Segal, a tech and security expert at the Council on Foreign Relations.<br />And espionage concerns have for years kept Huawei — one of the world’s biggest suppliers of telecom gear,<br />and a powerhouse of China’s tech scene — largely out of the American market.<br />“So there’s no way to kick this can down the road anymore.”<br />Still, as much as American companies complain about how they are treated in China, it could get even worse<br />if Beijing amplifies its retaliation beyond the tariffs, announced Friday, on $3 billion worth of goods.<br />China could require that foreign tech companies undergo costly additional tests<br />for new products, or simply make it more difficult to operate in the country.<br />Recent tit-for-tat trade actions could deepen what has become a global contest for technological dominance between the United States<br />and China, home to the planet’s largest population of internet users and a flourishing community of start-ups and innovative companies.
