When the Chips Are Down, Turn to China?

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We’re offering your first month of The Wire China for just one dollar. More details below!The world is facing a global memory chip shortage, with companies scrambling to buy what they can. The crunch puts desperate U.S. firms in a bind: will they need to start purchasing chips from China?Subscribe nowIn this episode, reporters Rachel Cheung and Noah Berman discuss the rise and global allure of China’s homegrown chipmakers. Even though the U.S. government designated two of China’s biggest suppliers as military companies and subjected them to export controls, looming chip shortages mean purchases from China aren’t off the table just yet.We also feature an extract from our Q&A with author and historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom on the importance of understanding Chinese history.ShareStart your subscription to The Wire China today! We’re making it easy with your first month for just one dollar. Sign up for our newsletter here and we’ll send you the discount code to apply at checkout.Discount CodeTranscriptRachel: Hello, and welcome back to The Wire China podcast. I’m Rachel Cheung, staff writer at The Wire China, and will soon be joined by my fellow reporter Noah Berman to discuss if China could be the answer to the global crunch in memory chips.We will also have a Q&A with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a history professor at the University of California, Irvine, who has just published a handy primer on contemporary China called Everything You Wanted to Know About China But Were Afraid to Ask. Before we go into memory chips, we are currently offering a discount code for new subscribers to The…