Comment Chinese state media called the US an aspiring "surveillance empire" over its proposed use of asset tracking tags to crack down on black-market GPU shipments to the Middle Kingdom.

"While accusing others of spying, Washington runs the world's most sprawling intelligence apparatus. Steeped in Cold War paranoia, some American politicians see trade not as a channel for mutual exchange, but as another theater for covert operations," state-run outlet Xinhua wrote in a comment last week.

The US certainly has a long and storied history of high-tech intelligence gathering, but then again, so does China, which operates one of the largest surveillance camera networks on the planet.

The terse words are the latest salvo in an ongoing battle over advanced technology shipments between the two

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