Technology Rivalry Between the USA and China

This book addresses the geopolitics and geoeconomics of technological rivalry between the world’s two great powers: the USA and China. It focuses on the semiconductor industry, which, owing to its dual use in civilian and defence sectors, is critical to economic and national security interests. A diverse set of contributions from renowned scholars span wide-ranging topics to holistically analyze contemporary USA-China national security through a technological lens: the shifting trade and technology policy in the USA; the Chip-4 alliance as an industrial cartel; technology sanctions and the voice of high-tech industry in the USA; the race for digital sovereignty in the Gulf region and in Africa; Japan’s grand strategy vis-à-vis semiconductors; a critical assessment of China’s achievement on its self-sufficiency and effort in reducing its reliance on foreign supplies; the significance and the strategy of Taiwan’s semiconductor in the future, as well as how Taiwan can advance its national security through its status as a powerhouse of semiconductors; Korea’s semiconductor policy in response to international technology rivalry; India’s pursuit of semiconductors; and a close investigation of decoupling and hostility between the two great powers.

Peter C.Y. Chow has been Professor of Economics at the City College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA, since 1986. He was previously also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a contractual consultant of the World Bank. He specialized in trade and development, with a focus on comparative developments in latecomers of industrialization in Asia-Pacific region. His recent research focused on the economic transformation and integration in the Indo-Pacific countries, technological rivalry, industrialization in the newly industrialized countries. He has published more than 60 articles in referee journals and book chapters in addition to editing and writing more than 10 books.