Our Next 'Cold War' Won't Look Much Like the Old One

摘要

If the world is indeed headed for a Cold War 2.0 that splits the globe into U.S. and Chinese technological zones, the new "digital iron curtain" that separates them may well have to run through the heart of this bland industrial park in Oxfordshire, just off the M40 highway from London to Birmingham. On one side of the park looms a gleaming Amazon.com Inc. warehouse. Across the street is the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre, a modest brick building that's unremarkable but for the one-way glass that obscures its windows, the CCTV cameras that bristle from its walls, and the oversize air-conditioning units lined up outside to cool the servers within.