The Fight Over High-Tech Supremacy Isn't New. We Just Haven't Learned Our Lesson

Posted February 12, 2019

External Article: Fortune

John Krige, the Kranzberg Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of History and Sociology, recently wrote an article entitled “The Fight Over High-Tech Supremacy Isn't New. We Just Haven't Learned Our Lesson” for Fortune.

Here's an excerpt:

The U.S. is intensifying its competition with China for high-tech supremacy. Just two weeks ago, the Department of Justice released a major indictment against Chinese telecommunications company Huawei for allegedly violating U.S. sanctions against Iran. But that’s just one piece of a much larger puzzle.

Over the last two years, the U.S. has invoked a wide range of instruments to restrict Chinese access to cutting edge technology. Conditions for foreign investment in U.S. based high-tech firms were tightened. It has become more difficult for Chinese graduate students to get visas to study in sensitive fields like robotics. And concerns about China acquiring more advanced A.I. have led to calls for stronger controls on exports of this technology.

Read the full story here.

The School of History and Sociology is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.