"Sped up" is an important distinction. While the Trade War, Huawei/TikTok, and the Xinjiang-associated blacklist obviously plays into this, why is it assumed that U.S. access was guaranteed? If China is just an NPC that retaliates against U.S. choices, what is the Great Firewall?
From last December: "Beijing has ordered all government offices and public institutions to remove foreign computer equipment and software within three years" ft.com/content/b55fc6…
Shen Changxiang, father of the domestic Golden Shield Project has warned against U.S. technology for more than a decade. While Cisco built the Great Firewall, American tech dominance in China has been shrinking ever since. nytimes.com/2015/04/20/bus…
"Mr. Shen has been thinking about pushing American tech companies out of China for a while. In 2009, he warned of global communications surveillance by the United States in an essay"
"In a May 2014 interview with state-run media, Mr. Shen said tech products coming from the United States presented 'huge security risks,' and in a July essay he wrote that America’s technological dominance makes it a serious threat to Chinese national security."
Shen last month: "Cyber warfare is now floating on the surface of the water. The US wants to create 'cyberattack as deadly as a nuclear bomb' and attempt to achieve 'cyber nuclear blackmail.'" globaltimes.cn/content/119685…
We may think this momentum is one sided, but both of these superpowers have been radicalized by the power — and threat — of cyber dominance for decades now. The Snowden revelations ensured that the U.S. would never again be the only player in the game. This began long ago.
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