Glenn Tiffert discusses China's challenges in developing its semiconductor industry despite massive government subsidies. Tiffert explains that factors like lack of talent, economic inefficiencies, corruption, and reliance on foreign firms have hampered China's progress, but US export controls could unintentionally help China become self-sufficient over the long term. He explains the Silicon Triangle report's recommendation of "friend-shoring" semiconductor production to trusted allies rather than trying to onshore it all to the US.
Read "China's Lagging Techno-Nationalism" by Glenn Tiffert here: https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/SiliconTriangle_Chapter9_230828.pdf
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Glenn Tiffert is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and cochairs its project on China’s Global Sharp Power. A historian of modern China, he works closely with government and civil society partners
around the world to document and build resilience against authoritarian interference with democratic institutions.
Kharis Templeman is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and program manager of the Hoover Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific.
Silicon Triangle: The United States, Taiwan, China, and Global Semiconductor Security is a product of the Working Group on Semiconductors and the Security of the United States and Taiwan, a joint project of the Hoover Institution and the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations.
