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What's at stake in Trump's war on Huawei: control of the global computer-chip industry

  • Written by Clinton Fernandes, Professor, International and Political Studies, UNSW
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Silicon Valley may now be more popularly associated with software companies such as Google and Facebook but it takes its name from the material most used to make semiconductors.

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