For more than a decade, the United States and China have been engaged in a low‐​profile, high‐​technology trade war that has been conducted in the name of protecting critical economic and national security infrastructure from cyber malfeasance. But the trade restrictions and subsidies suggest that the objectives of both governments have less to do with cybersecurity than they do with industrial policy and protectionism.

An audio version of Policy Analysis #815, “Cybersecurity or Protectionism? Defusing the Most Volatile Issue in the U.S.–China Relationship.”

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