Biden Admin Unveils Tough Restrictions on Semiconductor Exports to China
The Biden administration unveiled sweeping new export controls Oct. 7, in an effort to hamstring the military modernization of an increasingly hostile China.
Among the new export rules is a measure that will cut communist China off from certain semiconductor chips that are made with U.S. technologies, regardless of whether the chips were manufactured in the United States.
The move is likely to be seen as a natural followup to the CHIPS and Science Act, which Biden signed into law in August. That law allocates billions of dollars of investments into domestic manufacturing of advanced semiconductor chips.
“China is trying to move way ahead of us in manufacturing [advanced chips],” President Biden said during an Oct. 6 speech. “It’s no wonder, literally, the Chinese Communist Party actively lobbied against the CHIPS and Science Act that I’ve been pushing in the United States Congress.”
“The United States has to lead the world in producing these advanced chips.”
Advanced semiconductor chips are used to make everything from pickup trucks to hypersonic missiles. Currently, more than 60 percent of the world’s supply of chips is produced in Taiwan, many of them with the help of American research and design.
The rules announced by the administration this week will build on restrictions developed earlier in the year which effectively require some companies to halt shipments of equipment to Chinese-owned factories producing advanced chips.
US Asserts Strength With New Rules
The move to cut off China from American research and design presents a vast expansion of the White House’s efforts to retard the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) military modernization and associated technological advances in quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
If effective, the new rules could set China’s domestic chip manufacturing industry back years by compelling American and foreign companies that use U.S. technologies to cut off
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