... including through commercial Chinese companies. Immediately following the announcement of steps against
Huawei
in May 2020,
sanctions were introduced
against 33 small, medium-sized and large Chinese tech companies involved in the development of AI systems,... ..., to absolutely no one’s surprise, will concentrate on the accelerated development of its technology sector, as well as on import substitution for the most important categories of products and digital services (to be fully realized in 2024–2025).
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... Presidents of many Russian Commercial Unions in the food sector from one side and spokesmen of the Russian and Belarusian Ministries of Agriculture on the other. Issues such as the politics put in place by the government in the context of the “import substitution strategy” and the needs and difficulties of entrepreneurs were extensively discussed.
What I want to point out in this brief article is the clear discrepancy that emerged between the authorities’ view of the situation ...
Interview with professor Sonin, esteemed economist of the University of Chicago
Russia has back fired to the western sanctions by banning the import of a wide range of food products in the context of the Ukrainian crisis. According to Russian ... ... the Russian ones on the domestic market through a process of “import-substitution”.
Yet, some argue that “import substitution” process is not feasible and might not have any political future. Also, the “food nationalism” ...