Is life with more. The white house put huawei on the blacklist a year ago, but the administration is still worried that it is relying too heavily on u. S. Technology and on u. S. Software so today the white house is tightening the restrictions around a supply chain. Companies will now be banned from providing huawei with chips made using American Parts or American Design unless they receive special permission from the commerce department. Of course, this also applies not just to huawei, but also to its affiliate including its inhouse chipmaker silicon and it comes at a time when the white house is trying to blame china for spreading the coronavirus. Just today this afternoon President Trump told reporters that he is not thrilled with the possibility that china wont fulfill its obligations under the phase one trade deal and on this move against huawei, the president does have the backing of the gop china hawks on twitter senator rubio said the u. S. Has to take strong action to cut off