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US-China tech war to be ‘defining issue of this century’, despite signing of phase one trade deal
Forget the phase one deal, a bitter superpower tech war will overshadow any minor progression in US-China relations emanating from this week’s trade agreement. That is the message contained in a new report to be released on Monday, the author of which says that tariffs are “a subset in a much larger, overarching, systemic rivalry between two superpowers, which is the defining issue of this century”. “The trade deal, which is focused on tariffs, is in a completely different space,” said Alex Capri, a visiting senior fellow at the National University of Singapore. “These are in parallel universes – we ... (full story)