One cannot miss it. In the last 5 or more years, Chinese tech has become a prominent topic in political discourse. From TikTok to Huawei, Chinese tech is increasingly framed in terms of 'surveillance', 'national security threats' and economic warfare. These anti-Chinese discourses are seemingly hegemonic. Trump and Biden position themselves against Chinese tech. But also in Europa, politicians, journalists and security services contribute to the framing of Chinese tech as tools of warfare. Even Chinese solar panels are discursively constructed as a security risk. 

In this new Diggit File, we dig deeper into these discourses.