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02.28.23
U.S.-China Trade Stayed Robust in 2022. Will That Last?
Trade figures for 2022 released earlier this month show U.S.-China goods trade hit a record high of $690.6 billion, despite ongoing tensions. How should we interpret these latest figures? Do these numbers obscure medium and long term trends? Or will...
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09.16.22
New Export Controls on Chinese Semiconductors May Prove Self-Defeating
New restrictions are not only likely unnecessary, they may ultimately prove self-defeating. Overly zealous controls that limit older semiconductor equipment sales to China will inflict collateral damage on American, and potentially international,...
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05.14.18China Welcomes Trump’s Help on ZTE as Trade Talks Loom
New York Times
Both sides are using the Chinese telecom company as a pawn in a geopolitical game.
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05.08.18China Plans $47 Billion Fund to Boost Its Semiconductor Industry
Wall Street Journal
In a move that could further heighten tensions with the U.S., China is poised to announce a new fund of about 300 billion yuan—$47.4 billion—to spur development of its semiconductor industry as it seeks to close the technology gap with the U.S. and...
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05.07.18
Can China Afford to Play Hardball with the U.S.?
In the midst of roiling trade tensions between the United States and China, last week Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin led a delegation of Donald Trump’s top economic advisors to Beijing. Demands were made in both directions and talks were...
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04.19.18Exclusive: China Looks to Speed up Chip Plans as U.S. Trade Tensions Boil - Sources
Reuters
China is looking to accelerate plans to develop its domestic semiconductor market amid a fierce trade stand-off with the United States and a U.S. ban on sales to Chinese phone maker ZTE that has underscored the country’s reliance on imported chips.
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09.14.17China Is Stumbling Hard at Acquiring the High-Tech Chip Companies It Wants So Badly
Quartz
US president Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed a Chinese private-equity firm’s proposed $1.3 billion purchase of Lattice Semiconductor, an Oregon-based chip manufacturer.