US-China Tech War: What Chinese Tech History Reveals About Future Tech Rivalry by Nina Xiang reviews the history of China's technology development and attempts to understand how it could shape current and future tech rivalry between the United States and China。

The book focuses on the semiconductor industry， the epicenter of the current US-China tech rivalry。 Despite decades of government-led effort to boost its chips industry， China has lagged far behind other countries and the country is extremely vulnerable to U。S。 tech blockage。

Why did China fail to achieve its goals after repeated effort？ What does tightening technology blockage by the U。S。 mean to China's tech space？ How deep will the rift between the two countries' tech ecosystem be？

The book dispels a number of myths about how China progressed technologically: the whole-nation model， forced technology transfer， and China's efforts to stimulate home-grown tech。 With a deeper look， these hyped terms reveal a different side that would surprise readers。