China Doesn’t Take Us Seriously on Tech Opinion


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China's tech sector poses an existential threat to America's national security. Both the Trump and Biden administrations made combating China's tech threat a priority. The Trump administration took a holistic approach, leveraging multiple agencies to remove our tech sector's ties to Beijing. For example, Trump's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned the use of federal funds to purchase equipment from Chinese companies with direct ties to its government. The FCC also used its foreign ownership rules to prevent Chinese wireless companies from getting licenses to operate in the U.S. The White House attempted to ban TikTok, Tencent QQ, and WeChat because...