‘No one can put a stranglehold on us,’ says Chinese official on global tech race

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BEIJING - China says it is capable of developing its own cutting-edge technologies, in a veiled warning that sanctions and measures to decouple or derisk from the country would not work. “No one can put a stranglehold on us for any known technology,” Mr Lou Qinjian, spokesman for the National People’s Congress, told reporters on the eve of the opening of the top legislature’s annual session. “It’s just a matter of time before we develop it,” he added at the press briefing. Mr Lou was responding to a local reporter’s question about China’s view on the increasingly intense competition between...