The current wave of anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States has been building for years. It started in the early 2000s, when US policymakers first raised national security concerns about Huawei.
China’s national technology champion, the market leader in developing new 5G telecommunications equipment, was accused of deploying digital backdoors that could enable Chinese espionage and cyberattacks. US-led sanctions in 2018-19 stopped Huawei dead in its tracks.
Loading...
Project Syndicate
Stephen S. Roach is a faculty member at Yale University and former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia.
