China's tech rise gives US bad case of heebie-jeebies

On May 15, the United States Department of Commerce announced it had put the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei on its Entity List, which means US companies have to get the government's permission to supply Huawei with their products. Zhong Sheng, a columnist for People's Daily, comments:

US officials have been busy traveling around the world to promote their claim that "Chinese technologies are harmful". They do so because the United States wants to halt China's progress and development.

According to IPlytics, a German patent database company, in March, China held 34.02 percent of all the necessary patents for 5G telecommunications, while the US held only 14 percent. That is what some in the US are really worried about.