China Stockpiles Chips, Chip-Making Machines to Resist U.S.

  • Foreign firms benefit from boom, push to develop industry
  • Tech self-reliance key strategic aim for China in next 5 years

    

Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg
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China is taking decisive steps to protect itself from a widening U.S. technology ban, with imports of computer chips and the machines that make them surging last year.