Meaning of silicon curtain | Babel Free

Definitions

A legal barrier to the transfer of technology and the sale of advanced computer equipment between China and the West.

no-plural

Examples

“We hear⟳ also from Huawei’s founder and CEO, Ren Zhengfei, who explains that while the company doesn’t want⟳ to exist⟳ behind a “silicon curtain,” cut⟳ off from global suppliers, it is readying its own⟳ operating system to replace⟳ the one it used to buy⟳ from Google.”

“Pence went on to say⟳ that America did not seek⟳ a technological decoupling from China. But other parts of that speech—and some of the actions taken by the Trump administration in the months since—conjure images of a silicon curtain descending across the world.”

“The Silicon Curtain, therefore, is not only about control⟳ of infrastructure but also about shaping thought, culture, and identity across populations.”

CEFR level