China’s universities are organizing platforms and teams to help break the country’s dependence on foreign imports.
Professor Gu Zhen and student researchers at the Zhejiang University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang, China. Credit: Zhejiang University
If there is one thing that China’s President Xi Jinping really wants then it is independence from the West. When President Trump imposed restrictions on telecoms giant Huawei purchasing U.S. tech in 2019, the move confirmed long festering anxieties among Chinese Communist Party leaders that it was too reliant on American, and more broadly, western high-tech imports. For decades, CCP leaders had highlighted the need to be "self-reliant" in critical technologies like microchips.
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