This book offers lucid, straightforward, policy-relevant and methodologically rigorous analyses of the ongoing US–China chip war and the context-specific ways how East Asian and Southeast Asian smaller states devise their techno-hedging strategies. In midst of US–China global semiconductor supply chains decoupling and weaponization, it presents conceptual and policy insights with clarity on how Asian techno-hedging strategies work to mitigate risks and turbulence of great power decoupling to advance national techno-economic gains, and to enhance industrial-positional leverages in global supply chains. US–China Chip War offers original research content and policy insights on: • Historical and contemporary dynamics of such inter-state technology competitions as the ongoing US–China chip war. • Key features of and distinctions between the European Union’s semiconductor supply chain system and the East Asia chip-island chain system. • Lucid comprehensive elucidations of such complex concepts and ideas as techno-nationalism, structural neo-realism, and techno-hedging, etc. • Rich and methodologically informed empirical case studies of different techno-hedging strategies as adopted by the governments and their major tech firms of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
This is essential reading for not just academics and researchers interested in the US–China tech wars, European and Asian semiconductor global supply chains, emerging technologies and global political economy, but also for government policymakers, policy economists, think tankers, business strategists, bankers and global financial analysts, who are primarily concerned about how critical science and technology policymaking and business/investment decisions should factor in great power politics, techno-geopolitics, national security, international political economy and global finance.