"silicon curtain" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "[2019 March 6, Karishma Vaswani, “Huawei: The story of a controversial company”, in BBC News",
          "text": "What this would mean in reality is a world of two internets - or what analysts are calling a \"digital iron curtain\" - dividing the world into parts that do business with Chinese companies like Huawei, and those that don't.]",
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          "ref": "2019 November 11, Carolynn Look, Jeff Black, “Peering Through the Silicon Curtain Between the U.S. and China”, in Bloomberg News",
          "text": "We hear also from Huawei’s founder and CEO, Ren Zhengfei, who explains that while the company doesn’t want to exist behind a “silicon curtain,” cut off from global suppliers, it is readying its own operating system to replace the one it used to buy from Google.",
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          "ref": "2021 February, Eric Boehm, “A Silicon Curtain Descends”, in Reason, published 2020",
          "text": "Pence went on to say that America did not seek a technological decoupling from China. But other parts of that speech—and some of the actions taken by the Trump administration in the months since—conjure images of a silicon curtain descending across the world.",
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        "A legal barrier to technology transfer and sale of advanced computer equipment between China and the West."
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