Count the Costs of Cutting Technological Ties with China

The result of all this is that policy discourse about the United States, China,
and technology has careened from one pathology to another: The cheery
globalism of a decade ago has given way to today’s diffuse paranoia. Now
the national security conversation is almost exclusively focused on the
impossible task of severing the ties of technological interdependence,
with the only question being how much further to go.

In Jessica Chen Weiss, ed. Getting China Right at Home, Johns Hopkins SAIS Institute for America, China and the Future of Global Affairs.

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