Biden’s High-Wire Balancing Act on Chinese Tech

Imagine half of the cars on the San Francisco Bay Bridge, in New York City’s Lincoln Tunnel, and on dozens of other major U.S. transit arteries suddenly break down, triggered by a bug in their software. Chaos ensues.

This is one of the types of potential attacks referenced in a sweeping new U.S. draft regulation that would ban the use of Chinese and Russian connectivity and automation technology in cars sold in the United States.

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Geoffrey Gertz, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security who previously served as director for international economics in the Biden White House, said, “The big question to me is, how can we more effectively put guardrails on these national security restrictions to credibly signal that the yard is not going to get so big to swallow the entire relationship?”

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