Chris Miller

Inspectors visited businesses less to examine their operations than to threaten and collect payments in exchange for leaving the targeted firm alone. Industrial inspections varied drastically by region, with an average of 6.5 inspections per month in Krasnoyarsk but only 1.1 per month in Tver. There was no evidence that Krasnoyarsk factories were safer than Tver’s. The difference between the two provinces had less to do with factories than with inspectors, who were apparently more venal in Krasnoyarsk.36

feared that Huawei’s products were now priced so attractively, partly owing to Chinese

The steady tempo of technological innovation that underwrote Moore’s Law required ever more complex materials, machinery, and processes that could only be supplied or funded via global markets