Historical
Mirror of Japan-US Friction under Semiconductor Strategic Competition and
Systematic Comparison of the Sino-US Game As a strategic highland for
scientific and technological competition among major powers, the development
trajectory of the semiconductor industry profoundly reflects the changes in the
international power structure. The superposition of the U.S. technology
blockade against China and Japan’s export controls to China has made the
Sino-US technology game and the semiconductor trade friction between Japan and
the United States in the 80s of the 20th century present a similar historical
logic. This paper systematically compares the evolution of the Japan-US trade
friction in the semiconductor industry (1970s-1996s) and the Sino-US science
and technology game (2018s-2025s), and reveals the shaping mechanism of
technological sovereignty iteration and supply chain power reconstruction on
the competition pattern of major powers. The research finds that the essence of
friction between Japan and the United States is industrial competition under
the framework of allies, and the United States forces Japan’s technology to
depend on it through market quotas and generalization of security issues. The
Sino-US game is characterized by systematic confrontation, with the United States
imposing a blockade of the entire industrial chain on China. The difference in
response strategies between China and Japan is rooted in the division of
technological sovereignty consciousness: Japan has fallen into industrial
decline due to security dependence, and China has built an independent
technology ecology through asymmetric competition. Finally, it is further
proposed that China needs to enhance the resilience of the industrial chain
through “regional cooperation + precise countermeasures”, break through
the technological blockade through the policy combination of “short-term
countermeasures and long-term layout”, focus on disruptive technologies
such as third-generation semiconductors to achieve corner overtaking, and
finally build a new paradigm for the semiconductor industry, providing a
theoretical reference for emerging economies to break through technological
dependence. A systematic comparison of the historical mirror of Japan-US
friction under semiconductor strategic competition and the Sino-US game.
Keywords: semiconductor, Japan-US trade friction, Sino-US technology game, technological sovereignty iteration, industrial chain reconstruction.