It is a fact that when youre doing business with a Chinese company, youre doing business with the Chinese Communist Party, Senator Marco Rubio , a leading voice on China policy, told the National Defense University last December. Chinas push for global standards in areas such as 5G technology, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing are part of an effort to dominate the world, warned Senator Mark Warner , a former telecom executive who has become the face of the Democratic party on China, in a speech last year.
In the election campaign, Trump and his deputies blame China for deliberately spreading the Covid-19 virus, and seeking the economic destruction of the US.
Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his senior foreign policy advisers do see China as the US primary strategic competitor.
Overreach on technology restrictions could drive other countries toward China, warned Biden senior advisers Kurt Campbell and Jake Sullivan, in an article published last fall in Foreign Affairs.
The tech industry, under fire on issues from monopolization to the misuse of social media, and widely seen as leaning Democratic, has kept a low profile during the campaign. But executives have objected to steps such as controls on the sales of semiconductors to Huawei, which the Semiconductor Industry Association warned will bring significant disruption to the US semiconductor industry.
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