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Export controls and data-sovereignty laws have divided the technology economy into two non-interoperable production systems. Multinationals now face a permanent cost premium from bifurcating infrastructure, products, data systems, and compliance operations.
U.S. export controls aimed at leading-edge chips inadvertently created a pricing-power windfall in China's mature-node foundries. The mechanism: a deliberate policy line, state capital reallocation, and an unmodeled AI demand shock.