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.”…