The US Senate voted 68 – 32 on Tuesday (June 8) to approve a sweeping package of legislation intended to boost the country’s ability to compete with Chinese technology.
An indignant China responded to the vote by saying it objected to being cast as an “imaginary” US enemy.
The desire for a hard line in dealings with China is one of the few bipartisan sentiments in the deeply divided US Congress, which is narrowly controlled by President Joe Biden’s fellow Democrats.
The measure authorises about $190 billion (S$252 billion) for provisions to strengthen US technology and research – and would separately approve spending $54 billion to increase US production and research into semiconductors and telecommunications equipment, including $2 billion dedicated to chips used by…
