{"id":10093,"date":"2023-05-21T23:42:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T21:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/21\/chinas-war-chest-how-the-fight-for-semiconductors-reveals-the-outlines-of-a-future-conflict\/"},"modified":"2023-05-21T23:42:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T21:42:12","slug":"chinas-war-chest-how-the-fight-for-semiconductors-reveals-the-outlines-of-a-future-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/21\/chinas-war-chest-how-the-fight-for-semiconductors-reveals-the-outlines-of-a-future-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s war chest: how the fight for semiconductors reveals the outlines of a future conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US efforts to stifle China\u2019s chip industry are thought to be part of a wider plan to hinder Beijing\u2019s preparations for war<\/p>\n<p>Signs of the burgeoning conflict between the US and China can be spotted in many different places, from balloons in the sky to videos on TikTok. But nowhere is it more apparent than on the microscopic wafers of silicon, otherwise known as semiconductors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/feb\/18\/cold-war-20-will-be-a-race-for-semiconductors-not-arms\">Semiconductors<\/a>, or microchips, are tiny pieces of technology that power everything from microwaves to military weapons. The industry is worth more than $580bn (\u00a3466bn), but even that figure belies their importance to the global economy. Their existence powers several trillion dollars\u2019 worth of goods and processes; without them the global economy would shudder to a halt.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/22\/chinas-war-chest-how-the-fight-for-semiconductors-reveals-the-outlines-of-a-future-conflict\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e4caee8749398635e92ebe919d918a2a4ff94746\/0_0_2500_1500\/master\/2500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=62d42dbe07812aa64bd502e62455e151\" title=\"China\u2019s war chest: how the fight for semiconductors reveals the outlines of a future conflict\" \/>US efforts to stifle China\u2019s chip industry are thought to be part of a wider plan to hinder Beijing\u2019s preparations for war<br \/>\nSigns of the burgeoning conflict between the US and China can be spotted in many different places, from balloons in the sky to videos on TikTok. But nowhere is it more apparent than on the microscopic wafers of silicon, otherwise known as semiconductors.<br \/>\nSemiconductors, or microchips, are tiny pieces of technology that power everything from microwaves to military weapons. The industry is worth more than $580bn (\u00a3466bn), but even that figure belies their importance to the global economy. Their existence powers several trillion dollars\u2019 worth of goods and processes; without them the global economy would shudder to a halt. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US efforts to stifle China\u2019s chip industry are thought to be part of a wider plan to hinder Beijing\u2019s preparations for war Signs of the burgeoning conflict between the US and China can be spotted in many different places, from balloons in the sky to videos on TikTok. But nowhere is it more apparent than &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/21\/chinas-war-chest-how-the-fight-for-semiconductors-reveals-the-outlines-of-a-future-conflict\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China\u2019s war chest: how the fight for semiconductors reveals the outlines of a future conflict<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10093"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}