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Beijing's ambitions to lead in technologies like AI, 5G, quantum computing, and genomics, if successful, would provide China with unprecedented economic, political, and military advantages (Photo: Lain)

China's post-Covid 19 'techno-nationalist' industrial policy

While Covid-19 brings China one step closer to technology-perfected authoritarianism through improvised health apps and real-time surveillance, Europe is busy looking inward.

The pandemic has reignited self-reliance ambitions and given new impetus to concepts of digital and technological 'sovereignty'.

There is a serious debate about re-shoring production from Chin...

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Rebecca Arcesati is an analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin. Martijn Rasser is a senior fellow of the technology and national security program at the Centre for a New American Security.

Beijing's ambitions to lead in technologies like AI, 5G, quantum computing, and genomics, if successful, would provide China with unprecedented economic, political, and military advantages (Photo: Lain)

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Rebecca Arcesati is an analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin. Martijn Rasser is a senior fellow of the technology and national security program at the Centre for a New American Security.

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