The U.S. government has slowly realized that one of its best options for protecting America's tech edge is by weaponizing the semiconductor supply chain.
It was 2015, and Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich couldn’t hide his anxiety about China’s push to seize a bigger share of the world’s chip industry. As chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association, the U.S. chip industry’s trade group, Krzanich was tasked with hobnobbing with U.S. government officials. Usually this meant asking for tax cuts or reduced regulation. But this time, as he met with senior Obama administration officials, the topic was different: convincing the U.S. government
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When Congress resumes next month, the BioSecure Act will be one of its top priorities. The bill, which could dramatically reorder the global pharmaceutical supply chain, is the latest example of the U.S. trying to exorcize China from its supply chains, and it will have a profound effect on WuXi Apptec, the most important drugmaker American patients have never heard of.
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