US tech firms bypassing Pentagon to protect deals with China, strategist says

The US government has an increasingly tense relationship with Silicon Valley, Peter Singer says, yet needs its help to battle the 'new cold war' with China

Silicon Valley companies are shying away from selling cyberwarfare services to the Pentagon to avoid jeopardising their relationship with the Chinese market, a leading geopolitical strategist has suggested.

Peter Singer, an author and senior fellow at the New America Foundation thinktank, said the United States and China are engaged in a new cold war - being fought partly in cyberspace - that "could turn hot".