Tech Cold War · Full chronicle and history

On October 16, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology released a draft revision of the technology export catalogue, proposing to add 14 categories of technologies banned from export and 26 categories of restricted export, involving AI malicious code generation, cell and gene therapy platforms, perovskite battery technology, and others. Public comments are accepted until November 15, and export registration takes effect immediately.

US President Trump met with tech executives including Elon Musk and Jensen Huang at the White House, signed an executive order establishing the America.gov superintelligence platform, and made clear that the United States will not cooperate with China in the field of superintelligence.

US President Donald Trump emphasized in his speech at the UN General Assembly that the United States leads China and other countries in the development of superintelligence (S.I.) and will continue to maintain this advantage. He stated that the US will not curb the development of superintelligence but will encourage and closely monitor it, believing it has immense potential.

On September 14, 2026, Trump called Jensen Huang's mobile phone while Huang was attending a public event. Huang stated on the spot that the threat of AI is not that significant; Trump claimed that if AI is not developed, China will catch up in one year.

On the eve of the U.S.-China leaders' summit, Trump repeatedly stressed that the United States must maintain its lead over China in artificial intelligence, saying that whoever wins AI wins, and posted on Truth Social that there had been a conspiracy around artificial intelligence and data centers, and that the only one happy about it is China.

The US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing where bipartisan lawmakers emphasized the necessity of maintaining leadership in artificial intelligence and guarding against the technological advantages of the Chinese Communist Party.

US cybersecurity company CrowdStrike released an investigation report pointing out that, as investment in the field of artificial intelligence surges, the greatest intelligence-probing threat faced by technology companies worldwide over the past year has come from hackers linked to the Chinese government.

The US Department of Justice has indicted three individuals linked to Super Micro Computer, accusing them of assisting in smuggling at least $2.5 billion worth of US artificial intelligence technology to China.

In 2020, China was designated as a foreign adversary by the U.S. Department of Commerce under an executive order, subjecting transactions involving information and communication technology and services to special scrutiny.

To avoid accountability for failed technological exploration and to meet its KPIs, the Soviet Ministry of Radio Engineering, which controlled resource allocation, suppressed the scientific community and chose to copy the American IBM 360 through reverse engineering, leaving domestic hardware development in permanent stagnation.