{"id":996469,"date":"2026-03-06T07:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T02:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996469"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T02:31:57","slug":"china-touts-high-tech-push-as-rivalry-with-us-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/06\/china-touts-high-tech-push-as-rivalry-with-us-intensifies\/","title":{"rendered":"China touts high-tech push as rivalry with US intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China on Thursday vowed to deepen investment in high-tech industries and scientific innovation, framing them as essential to bolstering security and self-reliance amid rising geopolitical tensions and an intensifying rivalry with the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>At the opening of the annual parliament meeting, Premier Li Qiang praised China&#8217;s ability to withstand U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariff hikes, but said &#8220;multilateralism and free trade are under severe threat,&#8221; and announced 7% increases in the national defence budget, as well as in research and development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China on Thursday vowed to deepen investment in high-tech industries and scientific innovation, framing them as essential to bolstering security and self-reliance amid rising geopolitical tensions and an intensifying rivalry with the U.S. At the opening of the annual parliament meeting, Premier Li Qiang praised China&#8217;s ability to withstand U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariff hikes, but said &#8220;multilateralism and free trade are under severe threat,&#8221; and announced 7% increases in the national defence budget, as well as in research and development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}