Can Chinese Firms Break Free from the US Hi-Tech Blockade? Investigating the New Era of Techno-Nationalist Globalization

我们似乎正处于一个被一些人称为“技术民族主义全球化”的新时代的黎明，在这个时代，先进技术的国家所有权已成为地缘政治竞争中的一个关键安全问题，这主要反映在美国最近与中国的脱钩上。本研究试图从中国高科技公司的角度来研究这些仍然新鲜的转变，这些公司目前正受到世界霸主的攻击，其中大多数是华为，但也包括Tik Tok、中兴通讯、大疆和海康威视。本研究将有助于当代关于世界秩序未来、不断变化的全球化和结构性力量、国家资本主义与新自由主义的复兴以及一些人认为的正在兴起的第二次冷战的辩论。这些争论中的大多数学者都来自西方，缺乏来自中国的观点，包括中国公司在美国领导的封锁的接收端。本研究试图通过对中国数据的调查，特别是对中国高科技企业的访谈来填补这一空白。因此，本研究不仅将解决核心的学术争论，而且不仅对中国，而且对所有试图驾驭这个新技术民族主义时代的新兴市场都具有政策相关性。

We seem to be at the dawn of a new era of what some call"techno-nationalist globalization" in which the nationalownership of advanced technology has become a keysecurity issue in geopolitical rivalry, which is mainlyreflected recently in the US decoupling of China. Thisresearch proposes to investigate these still-freshtransformations from the perspective of Chinese high-techfirms now under attack from the world's hegemon, most ofHuawei but also Tik Tok, ZTE, DJI and Hikvision.This research will contribute to contemporary debates onthe future of world order, the changing globalization andstructural power, a resurgence of state capitalism versusneoliberalism, and what some consider to be a burgeoningCold War II. Most scholars in these debates are based in theWest and there is a shortage of perspectives from China,including Chinese firms at the receiving end of this US-ledblockade. This research intends to fill this gap byinvestigating Chinese data, especially through interviewswith the Chinese hi-tech firms themselves. Hence, thisresearch will not only address core academic debates butalso intends to be policy-relevant not just for China but allemerging markets attempting to navigate this new techno-nationalist era.