U.S.-China Commission: Trade tensions pushing China toward tech independence

Ongoing trade tensions between the United States and China are hastening Beijing’s drive to technologically decouple from the U.S. amid fears that the Trump administration could cut off its supply of inputs to critical technologies, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission says in its new annual report . The U.S.-China Commission was created by Congress in 2000 to analyze the national security implications of U.S.-China economic and trade relations. “Trade frictions with the United States have accelerated de-coupling efforts,...