Trump Set to Deepen Tech Cold War with China

Donald Trump launched a technological war against China in his first presidency. His next administration faces a much harder task: finishing it.

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On export controls — a type of trade sanction that bans the sale of certain U.S. products to blacklisted companies and individuals abroad — the Biden administration has hewed to a methodical approach it dubbed “Small Yard, High Fence,” focused on controlling the choke point of advanced chips. Thomas Krueger, former director of strategic trade and nonproliferation on Trump’s National Security Council, said he expects that a new Trump administration will probably expand these controls to other strategic technologies.

“There’s going to be a very large lawn,” Krueger said, “and an extraordinarily high fence.”

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