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China’s chip push hardens under U.S. pressure
Jul 12, 2026SOURCE: moderndiplomacy.eu
SO WHAT
The window narrows for using scarcity as leverage; pressure is forcing China to internalize more of the stack.
Washington’s four-year effort to choke advanced industrial access appears to have accelerated domestic substitution. The wire points to a familiar inversion: constraint is now building capacity.
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