Introducing Tech Tonic: The US/China Tech Race

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🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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A new six-part series of Tech Tonic brings you stories from the frontlines of the battle between the US and China for global technological supremacy. At stake is the future of technologies that will shape all our lives, from the way the internet is used to the way we govern our societies. Join the FT’s Global China Editor James Kynge as he charts China’s dramatic transformation into a global tech superpower, sparking rivalry with the US over who controls our technological future.

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0:00.0	This season on Tectonic.
0:03.3	I was thinking who would pound people's door like that.
0:08.2	What brought the FBI to arrest a Chinese scientist in the middle of the night?
0:13.9	To catch Chinese because they think all these Chinese scientists, professors and students are spies for China.
0:21.2	I'm James King, the global China editor at the Financial Times,
0:25.3	and in this new season of Tectonic,
0:27.8	I'll bring you stories from the front lines of the U.S. China Tech War.
0:33.0	We haven't had an economic competitor like China,
0:36.1	probably in the history of our country, they are trying
0:39.2	to put us out of business.
0:40.2	This is the story of China's dramatic rise to become a world tech superpower and the battle
0:48.3	between China and the United States for global tech supremacy, from espionage in Silicon Valley to computer chips in Taiwan.
0:58.0	Really, a lot of Taiwanese companies are stuck in the middle and forced to choose sight.
1:04.0	And it's like a war that it never ends.
1:07.0	From surveillance on the streets to rockets in outer space.
1:12.2	Whether it's communication satellites or launch capabilities, China is trying to compete in everything.
1:18.7	Who's winning and what's at stake in the race to control our technological future?
1:25.7	Subscribe to Tectonic from the Financial Times,
1:29.4	wherever you get your podcasts.

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