His administration is rallying allies behind the effort, including the Netherlands, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan – home to leading companies that play key roles in the industry’s supply chain. In October, Biden imposed sweeping restrictions on providing advanced semiconductors and chipmaking equipment to Chinese companies, seeking to maintain dominance particularly on the most advanced chips. effort to outcompete China in the cutting-edge technology sector. “Any actions China would take now targeting the foreign business community would not align with moves towards opening up after zero-COVID policies were dropped, and portraying China as now more open for business,” he said. “Such practices are contrary to the principles of market economy” and are “blatant technological hegemony,” Mao said.Ĭhina has in the past held back on trade retaliations on U.S. Foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning accused Washington of “overstretching the concept of national security and abusing state power” to suppress Chinese competitors. Huawei and Beijing have denied that they are a threat to other countries’ national security. and China as largely zero sum,” he told VOA. “In the current climate of U.S.-China relations, that balancing act is being abandoned in favor of viewing technology transactions between the U.S. Undercutting the revenue of these technology companies, which reduces R&D budgets and can lead to layoffs, must be carefully balanced by clear national security gains, said Paul Triolo, senior vice president for China and technology policy lead at the business advisory firm Albright Stonebridge Group. Currently Intel and Qualcomm still sell chips used in laptops and phones manufactured by Huawei. companies whose revenues will be directly affected, Howell said. Should the Commerce Department follow through with the ban, there will likely be pushback from U.S. “So 4G items, Wi-Fi 6 and 7, artificial intelligence, high performance computing and cloud capabilities as well.” “These new restrictions from what we understand so far would include items below the 5G level,” she told VOA. Now the Biden administration appears to be heading toward a total ban on all tech exports to Huawei, said Sam Howell, who researches quantum information science at the Center for a New American Security’s Technology and National Security program. Since taking office in 2021, President Joe Biden has taken an even more aggressive stance than his predecessor, Donald Trump. The crackdown on Chinese companies began under the Trump administration, which in 2019 added Huawei to an export blacklist but made exceptions for some American firms, including Qualcomm and Intel, to provide non-5G technology licenses. But observers say the move may be the latest tactic in the Biden administration’s geoeconomics strategy as it comes under increasing Republican pressure to outcompete China. The White House and Commerce Department have not responded to VOA’s request for confirmation of the reports. Department of Commerce has informed American firms that it will no longer issue licenses for technology exports to Huawei, thereby isolating the Shenzen-based company from supplies it needs to make its products. officials have long singled out as a threat to national security for its alleged support of Beijing’s espionage efforts.Īs first reported by the Financial Times, the U.S. China says it is “deeply concerned” over reports that the United States is moving to further restrict sales of American technology to Huawei, a tech company that U.S.
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