China’s Tech Turnaround
Beijing’s crackdown on the sector, followed by recent huge investments in AI and other areas, are part of a long pattern of shifts in the way the government has approached tech development.
Graham Webster is a research scholar in the Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation, where he leads the DigiChina Project and researches and teaches on technology, Chinese policy and development, and U.S.–China relations.