self-sufficiency

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The “Made in China 2025” plan released in 2015 that caused so much consternation in the West earmarked 10 industries for self-sufficiency.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

That’s a byproduct of Beijing’s deliberate policy of technology self-sufficiency, in the face of restrictions on its access to advanced U.S. semiconductors and other technology.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

The law’s goal of promoting national self-sufficiency in shipbuilding has been met with fleet shrinkage.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

But Nixon spends most of the half-hour talking about “Project Independence,” a pie-in-the-sky proposal for U.S. energy self-sufficiency by 1980.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

Growing up on Euclid Avenue, I’d been taught that self-sufficiency was everything.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama