China’s top legislature declared on Monday that Washington’s sanctions and other measures to contain China in technology – including 5G tech, semiconductors and artificial intelligence – would ultimately “prove futile”.
“For any technology known to man, [the US] cannot choke [China’s development]. It is merely a matter of time [before we prevail],” said National People’s Congress (NPC) spokesman Lou Qinjian in Beijing during the first day of the country’s annual legislative meetings, known as the “two sessions”.
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