In China’s quest to cut its reliance on foreign chip technologies, no one epitomizes Beijing’s vision better than Zhao Weiguo. The 48-year-old chief executive of Tsinghua Unigroup, an investment arm of the country’s prestigious Tsinghua University, in the past two years spent billions of dollars buying chip companies. The goal, he says, is using foreign know-how as a shortcut to building an advanced chip sector for China.

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