Is US tech supremacy challenged as H-1B restrictions hand advantage to China?

The competition for the leadership of the current, rules based international order, between the US and China gets murkier with each passing day as the two major actors of the multipolar world order dive into newer partnerships, alliances, influence operations, tactics and experiment with long term strategies. In this shadow of the escalating US-China tensions, where Artificial Intelligence (AI), semiconductors and quantum computing define the new race, America’s greatest vulnerability is not a foreign cyber-attack or a supply chain sabotage alone. It is self-inflicted! The Trump 2.0 administration imposed a USD 100,000 annual fee on H-1B visas, which albeit currently seems to be getting diluted with myriad, confusing statements, but has been accelerating the erosion of US technological dominance.