Chinese chief Xi Jinping has used coverage, capital and outright decree to mildew the world’s No. 2 economic system in his personal picture. After over a decade in energy, an intensifying wrestle for tech leadership with the US and a sputtering home economic system counsel he’ll should as soon as once more recalibrate the nation’s big web and manufacturing sectors.

The 69-year-old chief has a posh relationship together with his home tech sector. Xi has made science and expertise pillars of his long-term imaginative and prescient for China’s nationwide wellbeing, and he is positioned a precedence on researching homegrown options to foreign-made semiconductors to make sure dependable provide. The newest salvo: Beijing this week barred Micron Technology Inc. reminiscence chips from delicate infrastructure functions.