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Between The Dragons
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There is a war going on. A war between the dominant power, the undisputed victor of the Cold War and the richest country in the world, versus the ascending power, the most populous nation on the earth that wishes to claim a place in the world order. This war is not fought by their armed forces on the battlefields, with missiles in the air, or navies on the open seas. No, instead it is fought by nerds and wonks in research labs, in patent offices and courts, in corporate boardrooms and on factory floors. There is no shooting, but the war is fought as bitterly as any mortal combat - because both rivals know that they cannot possibly become the dominant power of the twenty first century without first achieving superiority, or at least parity, in semiconductor technology. Yes, the technology responsible for making those ubiquitous silicon chips that power the computers and the phones, the televisions and the radios, the games and the supercomputers, cars, homes, offices, factories...even dog tags, and everything else in modern life, is the crucial prize in the global struggle. This is a story of one battle - no, more like just one minor skirmish - in this war. A side-line fight for control of an out-of-the-way specialized player in the semiconductor technology supply chain. This particular encounter embroils three old engineers in a scheme that they do not quite understand or wish any part of. All they want is to be left alone to carry on tinkering the way they have always done. Junjie, a 50-something Chinese entrepreneur, is first wooed, and then manipulated into becoming a tool in an underhanded ploy conducted by a mysterious offshoot of the Chinese government machine. Aki, an American businessman about to turn 60, and an owner of a specialized company in the chip industry, is first lured, and then blackmailed into selling his company to a Chinese interest. Ivan, a semi-retired soon-to-be-70 year old engineer, first tries to be just a matchmaker, and then real
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