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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sam_sajith" data-source="post: 26821929" data-attributes="member: 206455">Tech and BusinessSemiconductor concerns. The U.S. Senate <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/2429f43f-f1bf-4131-aefa-0d20a64b9d17" target="_blank">passed</a> the Endless Frontier Act on Tuesday, putting over $250 billion into research as part of technological competition with China and blocking Chinese investment in sensitive areas. Lawmakers have already considerably <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/6/4/22518923/endless-frontier-act-innovation-competition-act-china-congress" target="_blank">reduced</a> the bill’s original spending goals, which were far more ambitious. One of the most notable parts of the bill is the $52 billion allocated for the U.S. semiconductor industry.There are a couple of reasons why U.S. policymakers have lately become so focused on semiconductors, the crucial components in computer chips.The first is China’s saber-rattling over Taiwan, which makes up <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/16/2-charts-show-how-much-the-world-depends-on-taiwan-for-semiconductors.html" target="_blank">63 percent</a> of the global semiconductor revenue. On the Chinese side, a failed yearslong plan to boost domestic production has caused concern. There’s also the <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/08/goldman-disruptions-from-the-chip-shortage-should-improve-soon.html" target="_blank">chip shortage</a> that emerged this year as economic growth resumed after the onset of the pandemic—slowing down global manufacturing of everything from toasters to <a href="https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a36503933/chip-shortage-affecting-car-supply-survey/" target="_blank">cars</a>.TikTok, WeChat get reprieve. The Biden administration has <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-revokes-trump-actions-targeting-tiktok-wechat-11623247225" target="_blank">dropped</a> Trump-era attempts to ban or force the sale of uber-popular video app TikTok and ubiquitous Chinese messaging service WeChat. The decision was always likely, given U.S. courts had already blocked both attempts in no uncertain terms.In both cases, the shaky argument for banning the apps was largely based on fears of CCP influence—circumstantial in the case of <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/12/07/944039053/u-s-judge-halts-trumps-tiktok-ban-the-2nd-court-to-fully-block-the-action" target="_blank">TikTok</a> and well-documented for WeChat—that didn’t hold up against U.S. law, and especially the First Amendment. Moreover, the Trump administration itself gave up on trying to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-administration-wont-enforce-tiktok-ban-following-court-order-2020-11" target="_blank">enforce</a> the TikTok ban.The decision doesn’t mean an end to scrutiny of Chinese technology’s presence in U.S. firms. But it is emblematic of how the Trump team’s chaotic attempts to make headlines on China often ran into legal quagmires.Huawei’s “new” OS. The Chinese phone giant Huawei, battered by accusations of connections to the People’s Liberation Army and riding the nationalist wave in China, has launched its own supposedly domestically developed operating system called HarmonyOS. Chinese media have hailed the move as a step forward for the country’s technological independence.There’s just one small problem. <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/huaweis-harmonyos-will-rollout-to-100-android-models-over-the-next-year/" target="_blank">HarmonyOS is Android</a>, at least on phones and tablets. There appear to be two systems, an Internet of Things and smartwatch version based off Huawei’s own LiteOS and a fork of Android running on the phones and tablets. The codebase is virtually identical, and early versions hadn’t even scrubbed “Android” from some references.Forking Android is perfectly normal, but Huawei’s obfuscation that it’s done so for domestic political propaganda ends isn’t.</blockquote>

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