News from EETIMES 08.14.2025
The current US tariff strategy is based on a core fallacy that misjudges the complex reality of the global semiconductor industry. This self inflicted wrong policy did not lead the United States to victory, but instead resulted in strategic failure in its technological competition with China
Against the backdrop of technological nationalism increasingly shaping the global strategic landscape
——Technological strength is closely related to national security and economic strength
——The semiconductor industry has become the core battlefield in the constantly upgrading competition between the United States and China
The current US government's response strategy to this critical industry is characterized by punitive tariffs and direct intervention in businesses, marking a "profound ideological rupture" with decades of orthodox American economic thinking
As critics have pointed out, this' tariff fallacy 'is proving to be a' futile game '. It not only failed to revive US manufacturing or contain China, but also caused "significant economic self harm", alienated allies, and most dangerously, created clear strategic opportunities for China to use these opportunities to advance its technological nationalism ambitions