It’s no secret that China wants to rival the US as a technological superpower. Preventing that scenario has been one of US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan’s top priorities—but he can’t do it alone..
While American firms such as Nvidia design the most powerful chips in the world, those chips are made on the back of an interconnected global supply chain. Already, the US has begun blocking its most advanced chips from being exported to China.
But some fear that in isolating China, the US will only accelerate the development of China’s own, homegrown tech. Others worry that in its haste to stand up to one authoritarian regime, the US has wound up courting others.
Sullivan has kept laser focused on China, even while facing crisis after crisis in the White House—a pandemic, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Gaza. He sees this mission in existential and personal terms.
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It’s no secret that China wants to rival the US as a technological superpower. Preventing that scenario has been one of US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan’s top priorities—but he can’t do it alone..
While American firms such as Nvidia design the most powerful chips in the world, those chips are made on the back of an interconnected global supply chain. Already, the US has begun blocking its most advanced chips from being exported to China.
But some fear that in isolating China, the US will only accelerate the development of China’s own, homegrown tech. Others worry that in its haste to stand up to one authoritarian regime, the US has wound up courting others.
Sullivan has kept laser focused on China, even while facing crisis after crisis in the White House—a pandemic, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Gaza. He sees this mission in existential and personal terms.
Read more: [https://www.wired.com/story/jake-sullivan-china-tech-profile/](https://www.wired.com/story/jake-sullivan-china-tech-profile/)
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