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China’s high-tech developments and US national security concerns

China’s high-tech developments and US national security concerns

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - When examining serious US national security concerns towards China, it is clear that US concerns about China are not unfounded, and that these concerns have multiple contexts, especially in the high-tech sector. China has developed quantum supercomputers that perform one-year calculations in an hour or less. The development of advanced quantum computers has raised serious concerns in the United States about cybersecurity and espionage. The Chinese are also seeking to innovate to global standards for emerging technologies such as the 5G Internet, the IoT, artificial intelligence and other related fields. These activities set global standards…
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Chip shortages are creating a new crisis in the world

Chip shortages are creating a new crisis in the world

BY: Soheil Seyed Jamali PEJOURNAL - The world is currently in a COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The outbreak of this mysterious disease has affected most countries of the world for over a year and has caused many problems. The economic crisis can be considered the biggest and worst result of this virus. According to our current knowledge, the virus started in China and later spread to the rest of the world. Industrialized and rich countries have more production and industrial centers than Third World countries. Thus, the spread of the virus within those countries has complicated the crisis both for them…
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Atlantic Council: No, Iran isn’t going to be a Chinese client state

Atlantic Council: No, Iran isn’t going to be a Chinese client state

PEJOURNAL - Iran is in the process of finalizing an agreement with China, cementing an arrangement to sell crude oil to the world’s second largest economy for the next twenty-five years. The deal drew attention within Iran after the eighteen-page “Iran-China 25-year Comprehensive Partnership Document” was leaked, prompting comments that the Iranian government had sold its country out as a “client state” of China. The price? Up to $400 billion in installments spread over a quarter of a century. The characterization is not unique to Iran’s case. Iraq, which exports one hundred thousand barrels of crude oil to China each…
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