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Have you read anything about the ongoing efforts by China to create its own independent supply chain for computer chips? This effort is aimed at limiting America’s ability to sanction and thereby limit China’s access to chips made by American companies or companies aligned with America. One of the most visible battles in the chip wars has been the one over Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant.
In May 2020, Trump’s administration banned Taiwanese chip giant, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, from supplying Huawei with semiconductor chips. In August, the U.S. Department of Commerce went further, saying that any chip manufacturer globally would have to apply for a license from the U.S. in order to continue supplying Huawei with chips.