The Microsoft founder strongly believes in the potential of US-China cooperation and does not think a military escalation is likely.
Bill Gates claimed on Thursday that the US would not be able to achieve the desired result and limit Beijing's ambitions through procurement restrictions - which include a recent attempt to get the chip industry back under US control.
Gates does not see much sense in restricting chip sales to China, as the Asian nation will be able to catch up with the US rather quickly at this scale, and expressed his desire for Washington and Beijing to cooperate closer with each other.
Regarding a possible military conflict between China and the US within the next decade, Gates argues that restricting Chinese chip sales and manufacturing would only warn Beijing about the intention for military escalation and thus further damage bilateral relations and provide China with advance warning of a future threat. The billionaire personally does not believe in a military conflict between the two countries.
"So if you really think there’s gonna be a war in the next decade... which I hope never happens, I don’t think will happen," Gates told to the audience.
However, his ambiguous remark that if one assumes "we can avoid big nuclear wars... life will be better 10 years from now, 20 years from now" speaks for itself.......more below
