US must act quickly to counter China’s growing tech progress, lawmakers told

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U.S. lawmakers were told that China poses an existential threat to the United States and that Washington must accelerate technological advances. Strategies include expanding measures to exclude China from semiconductor and vital technology supply chains to counter its growing tech progress.

China is an existential threat to the United States, and Washington needs to slow Chinese momentum and accelerate US technological advances, or fall well behind the Asian giant, witnesses told lawmakers at a Congressional round table on Tuesday. Among the possible strategies needed to counter Beijing’s growing prowess, analysts said, included expanding the Silicon Shield – an attempt to remove China from semiconductor supply chains – to drone and other vital technologies; drastically reducing US...