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No Line to Be Drawn' in Tech War With China, Says Former Commerce Department BIS Official
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As the US rallies Japan and the Netherlands to join forces in strengthening the semiconductor equipment sanctions against China, Nikahtar observed that US allies don't always ...
By Martijn Rasser
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U.S. Poised to Further Tighten Technology Exports to China after Balloon Incident
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Current and former security officials say the balloon, which the U.S. said carried antennas and sensors for collecting intelligence and communications, underscores the nationa...
By Martijn Rasser
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Senators Are Talking about Another Big China Bill
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Among a long list of measures, it would have sent more military assistance to allies in the Pacific, bolstered development bank lending to replace Chinese investment in Latin ...
By Martijn Rasser
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America’s Hoped-For Asian Semiconductor Pact Looks Tricky
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The vision of a “democratic semiconductor supply chain” is not implausible. But creating chip networks rather than fuelling chip wars will require careful co-ordination within...
By Martijn Rasser
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How arming Ukraine is stretching the US defense industry
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“The Ukraine conflict has been an important wake-up call for decision makers at the Pentagon,” says Martijn Rasser, director of technology and national security at the Center ...
By Martijn Rasser & Stacie Pettyjohn
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Washington Halts Licenses for U.S. Companies to Export to Huawei
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Martijn Rasser, a technology expert at CNAS, a think-tank, said the latest action was a “really significant move”. “The actions by the commerce department are partly driven by...
By Martijn Rasser
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A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Is a Real and Dangerous Possibility That Could Wreck Armies and Ruin the Global Economy Worse than the 1929 Stock Market Crash
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While US businesses can take some steps to reduce their reliance on Taiwan chipmaking, including bolstering their chip inventories and diversifying their supply chains, this i...
By Martijn Rasser
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The Semiconductor Madman
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Foreign firms are forecast to supply over half of China’s chip consumption until at least 2026, according to IC Insights, a U.S. semiconductor research group. This is, of cour...
By Martijn Rasser
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The Dutch Get Ensnared in US-China Chips Fight
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In early October, the U.S. issued a new series of export restrictions targeting China's ability to manufacture advanced semiconductors and supercomputers — with the claim that...
By Martijn Rasser
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China Launches WTO Dispute over US Chip Export Controls
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China's initiation of a WTO dispute over the export controls did not surprise Martijn Rasser, director of the technology and national security program at the Washington-based ...
By Martijn Rasser
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The World’s Biggest Chipmaker Is Making a Multi-Billion Dollar Investment in the US Even Though It’ll Cost Way More to Make Chips There. Here’s Why It Decided to Do It Anyway.
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The factories will be partially subsidized by the US government through the CHIPS and Science Act, a package passed in August that provided $52 billion to boost US semiconduct...
By Martijn Rasser
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Biden’s China Tech Crackdown Leaves Xi With Few Ways to Hit Back
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Among the most notable firms on that list is emerging chip equipment-maker Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment Group Co., or SMEE, which could stifle Beijing’s efforts to cre...
By Martijn Rasser
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Biden Is Touting a Multibillion-Dollar Chip Factory in Arizona as a Way to Save the Global Economy from China Threats
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The bottom line: Despite being the largest foreign direct investment in US history, the Arizona plants are unlikely to protect the US economy from the risk of a Chinese invasi...
By Martijn Rasser
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Washington Wants the Dutch to Bend Over Semiconductor Sales to China
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According to Martijn Rasser, program director and senior fellow for the Technology and Security program at the Center for A New American Security, “The primary purpose of Unde...
By Martijn Rasser
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US Tries to Enlist Allies in Assault on China’s Chip Industry
The US commerce department and the Dutch government would not comment. Japanese trade minister Yasutoshi Nishimura recently said Tokyo was talking to the US about how to “resp...
By Martijn Rasser & Emily Kilcrease
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Tech Industry Squeezed by U.S.-China Rift: “The Music Is Going to Stop”
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The new round of efforts to slow China's access to semiconductor technology the U.S. announced last month went further than many people expected. And the Biden Administration ...
By Martijn Rasser
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China and the US Remain Locked in Mutually Assured Co-operation
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The latest clampdown on China shows similar intent in the fields of supercomputing and artificial intelligence. “This is strangling with an intent to kill” China’s AI ambition...
By Martijn Rasser
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How Tsmc and US-China Tensions May Dictate Fate of Global Economy
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The effects of such a halt would be "economically devastating," says Martijn Rasser, a former senior intelligence officer at the CIA who is now a security and technology exper...
By Martijn Rasser
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Biden Just Clobbered China’s Chip Industry
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Semiconductors are among the most intricate tools that human beings have ever invented. They are also among the most expensive to make. The latest chips — the sort that power ...
By Martijn Rasser
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Western Suppliers Cut Ties with Chinese Chipmakers as U.S. Curbs Bite
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It is common for Western companies to broadly suspend exports in the immediate wake of new U.S. restrictions, and then resume some later, once they decipher the rules, lawyers...
By Martijn Rasser
