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The US-China technology contest has reached the laboratories that certify whether electronic products can enter the American market, a South China Morning Post opinion piece argues. It says the FCC’s move against Chinese testing labs exposes Beijing’s lack of control over whether US buyers accept their test results.

That is a less familiar front in technology policy: not who makes a product, but whose checks count at the border. The piece frames the issue as a strategic vulnerability for China, rather than a dispute over chips or AI. How much power should a market have to decide which foreign testing results it accepts?

Discuss: Should countries be able to exclude foreign testing labs from certifying products for their markets, even when that makes trade less open?

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