China's technology protectionism and its non-negotiable rationales

With more than 700 million internet users, a foreign exchange reserve of 3 trillion USD, leading manufacturers like Huawei and Lenovo, and the emergence of online services like Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, China has all the components to become a global player in the internet economy. Yet it is not. Although the Chinese economy is overall more open since its accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001 and its entry into the open trading system, there are still important exceptions: The internet economy and the ICT sector are but an intrica

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