Chinese President Xi Jinping has for a decade called for breakthroughs to be made to untangle China from what it called “stranglehold technologies” – a total of 35 of them, seven of which are related to semiconductors, according to state media.
In a widely circulated video on Chinese social media platforms, a Peking University professor was seen telling his students that based on their study, it will take 400 years to get China to where it is today if it were to fully research, develop and build the high-speed train system on its own.
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