Chinese diplomats have privately criticized America’s tech regulatory strategy, warning at a UN conference that it could lead the world into an “abyss of conflict”. Hu Cong, Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Beijing, criticized “individual states”. Under the pretext of national security, the country is trying to “strengthen its own technological monopoly and contain the development of other countries” by building so-called “high fences in small gardens,” but this is clearly a reference to the United States. It is.Hu was speaking at a United Nations Security Council briefing on the expected impact of scientific developments on international peace and security.
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“The ‘small garden and high fence’ has become a ‘big garden with an iron curtain,’ which has seriously destabilized industrial and supply chains, widened the development gap, and hindered technological progress,” Fu said. Ta.
“We recognize that these artificial divisions are more harmful to international peace and security than the risks posed by technology itself, and may ultimately plunge the world into an abyss of conflict. I’m particularly concerned.”
His comments came just two weeks before the US presidential election. It is widely expected that the fierce technology war between the world’s two largest economies is likely to continue regardless of whether Democratic candidate Kamala Harris or Republican rival Donald Trump wins.In an April 2023 speech, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan described the approach of small yards and high fences as “protecting our nation’s fundamental technology,” and said the White House was trying to protect China’s It said it was carefully implementing “specific restrictions" on exports of cutting-edge semiconductor technology.
The Chinese government has opposed this practice, calling it containment. But the U.S. government insisted it was focused on only a few technologies and a small number of countries that would challenge the United States militarily.
