The US is turning the screws on its partners to help restrain China’s technological and military rise. The FT reported this week that Washington is pushing Taiwan to restrict its biggest semiconductor maker, TSMC, from selling chips to Huawei and tighten controls on other technology exports to China. US security concerns are legitimate. Yet China is far more interconnected, economically and technologically, with the US and the rest of the world than, say, the Soviet Union was during the cold war. That makes it more difficult to install effective export controls that do not hold back US industry.
美國正向合作伙伴施壓，要求幫助遏制中國的技術和軍事崛起。英國《金融時報》本週報導，美國政府正敦促臺灣限制其最大半導體制造商台積電(TSMC)向華為(Huawei)出售晶片，並收緊對其他對大陸技術出口的控制。美國的安全擔憂是合理的。然而，與比如冷戰時期的蘇聯相比，中國與美國以及全球其他地區在經濟和技術上的聯繫要緊密得多。實施有效的出口管制同時不影響美國工業的難度加大了。