While many have credited the Biden administration’s extensive export bans on semiconductor technology to China as dealing a huge blow to the Chinese regime’s economic and military ambitions, the success of the measures ultimately depends on enforcement, according to experts. The Department of Commerce in October imposed extensive export controls aimed at restricting the Chinese…

News Analysis After the United States announced the export ban on the sale of advanced chips to entities in China, the Chinese regime’s high-end chip industry finds it difficult to pursue its original research and production goals. Under the new U.S. regulations, logic chips of 14/16 nanometers (nm) or below, DRAM memory chips of 18 nm…

The Biden administration on Wednesday unveiled a wave of export controls targeting oil refining, a key revenue source that supports the Russian military, a week after Russian President Vladimir Putin began his invasion of neighboring Ukraine. The White House outlined additional economic costs on Russia and Belarus in response to Putin’s “brutal” invasion of Ukraine.  “The…

China’s telecom Huawei has been hit by four rounds of U.S. sanctions in less than two years. After nearly eight months of chip shortages, Huawei’s smartphone business has been battered, forcing it to expand into “crossover” businesses, such as smart pig farming, mining, and car sales. On May 4, Bonjour Holdings Limited, one of Hong…