The US is pushing allies in Europe and Asia to tighten restrictions on exports of chip-related technology and tools to China amid rising concerns about Huawei’s development of advanced semiconductors.
Washington wants Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands to use existing export controls more aggressively, including stopping engineers from their countries servicing chipmaking tools at advanced semiconductor fabs in China, according to five people familiar with the conversations.
The US has become increasingly concerned about the speed with which Chinese groups are developing advanced chips despite the tougher American controls.
Last year Huawei released the Mate 60 Pro, a phone that included an advanced chip that surprised export control experts in the US government.
Many Japanese companies have significantly cut ties with Huawei, but the Chinese group remains a member of Keidanren, the country’s most influential business lobby group.
EU trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said that the bloc would be reluctant to restrict European nationals from working in China. “This topic on talent is a rather more fundamental question of personal freedom. That is an area where we need to tread very carefully,” Dombrovskis said.
China was importing significantly more chips (ICs: integrated circuits) than it produced until 2022, when the US put aggressive restrictions on it
Now China makes more chips than it imports
The US is helping China do import substitution industrialization and be more independent
So China is our enemy and threatening us? I don’t see China with 400 military bases surrounding my country with its ships and planes running up and down my coast with offensive and nuclear weapons?
Since 2016, the US has waged a trade war against many countries in the world in an attempt to reduce its trade deficit and protect its domestic industries. However, apart from increasing the burden on consumers, the US trade deficit has hit a record high, and its domestic industries have not developed further.
Why should we subsidize an industry that has no trouble raising capital? The leading stocks in the US for 50 plus years have been largely technology names. They are not blocked from the capital markets-they dominate them. Having congress and the department of commerce pick “winners” is certain to end in a misallocation of capital at best, or a scandal of teapot dome scale at worst. Our advantage over China is that we don’t central plan. Let’s not central plan.
These efforts unfortunately will only impoverish americans. If you want to return american industrial might - shut down the dept of education and the federal student loan program - they are wasting the time of American youth. Stop all "credential" based licensing requirements- require merit/comptence instead.And if course- cutthrough the myriad of red tape impeding anything that needs done.
It is too late to beat China in electronics and electrification of society.
I use an Oppo phone - it is far superior in all aspects to Apple, Google or any Korean brand.
It goes back to the priorities of the US government. When our 1.6 trillion proposed budget spends more on the military and less on infrastructure, food security, manufacturing excellence - you get what you pay for!
We are in the business of selling machines and devices that destroy things - China appears to be in the business of selling machines and devices that improve the quality of life of its citizens.
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