'No one can put a stranglehold on us,' says Chinese official on global tech race

BEIJING – China says it is capable of developing its own cutting-edge technologies, in a veiled warning that sanctions and measures to decouple or derisk from the country would not work. "No one can put a stranglehold on us for any known technology," Mr Lou Qinjian, spokesman for the National People's Congress, told reporters on the eve of the opening of the top legislature's annual session. "It's just a matter of time before we develop it," he added at the press briefing. Mr Lou was responding to a local reporter's question about China's view on the increasingly intense competition between…