BrunGa
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Collision course: Will US-China tech race spin out of control? We often ask if Russia's invasion of Ukraine can lead to some kind of world war. But what if global conflict creeps up on us from a different quarter? Infuriated by what it portrayed as an "anti-China" G7 summit, Beijing made good on its threat to ban the US's biggest memory chip maker Micron. The move was expected, one might argue, after the West's growing restrictions on Chinese tech brands that include the likes of Huawei and TikTok. A fight for market share disguised as a battle of values? Or is technology the battleground of national security in the Information Age?