Democracies should coordinate export controls on AI chips to China

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  Janet L. Yellen

  U.S. Treasury Secretary; economist

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  safeguarding certain technologies from the PRC’s military and security apparatus [...] export controls. [...] we will engage and coordinate with our allies and partners Unverified source (2023)

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  Satoshi Yamada

  Japanese geoeconomics research fellow

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  export controls on advanced computing chips [...] to China. [...] It will be necessary for like-minded countries [...] coordinate on the Oct. 7 export control rules Unverified source (2023)

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  Dean Ball

  AI policy fellow and writer

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  China is dependent upon this equipment for all its advanced AI compute production. [...] jumped after U.S. export controls [...] our allies do not coordinate with us Unverified source (2025)

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  Bill Huizenga

  U.S. Representative from Michigan

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  keep the world’s most advanced chips out of China’s hands. [...] requires the secretary of State to coordinate with allied countries [...] align export control policies Unverified source (2025)

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  Ann Wagner

  U.S. Representative from Missouri

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  Gentlemen, vigilantly enforced and properly coordinated U.S. export controls deny China the access to sensitive technologies that it wants to steal and fuel its military modernization. However, our current export control system is deeply flawed. As a... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Michael McCaul

  U.S. Representative, House Foreign Affairs chair

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  The purpose of this hearing is to assess how the Biden Administration is keeping sensitive U.S. technology from foreign adversaries like China while opening markets for U.S. companies and other countries. It should come as no surprise that this commi... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Margrethe Vestager

  EU Commission executive vice-president

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  It’s a very big issue. So from Europe, when we look at China, we see a very complex relationship. We need China as a partner in fighting climate change. Without China on board, it will not happen. But China is also a systemic rival in how they see th... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Oren Cass

  American Compass founder and economist

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  Any export of advanced AI chips or chipmaking equipment to China must be understood as supporting its military, either by empowering its leading AI labs or by directly providing computing power to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Ultimately, the d... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Linda Moore

  TechNet President and CEO

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  Countries such as Brazil, India, Israel, Iceland, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE — classified as middle-tier under the rule — have both the resources and the motivation to invest in computing ecosystems outside U.S. influence. As a result, China and other... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Noah Tan

  Lawfare contributor

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  The administration’s recent decision to allow H200 chip sales to China compounds the damage. [...] it signals that allied burden-sharing is a one-way street. Unverified source (2026)

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  John Cornyn

  U.S. Senator (R-TX)

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  "export controls" [...] "U.S. restrictions on AI chips" [...] "work hand in glove with our allies" [...] "not acquired by the PRC". Unverified source (2025)

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  Brad Smith

  Microsoft vice chair and president

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  "Protecting national security by preventing adversaries from acquiring advanced AI technology is crucial." "Rules should include qualitative standards" [...] "to prevent chip diversion to China". Unverified source (2025)

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  Maggie Hassan

  U.S. Senator (D-NH)

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  "the types of chips needed to produce powerful artificial intelligence systems" [...] "far less effective if the Dutch and Japanese had not also added export limits". Unverified source (2023)

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  Helen Toner

  AI policy expert and TED speaker

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  "advanced AI chips." "The export controls" [...] "have been a huge success" [...] "countries that are U.S. allies." Unverified source (2025)

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  Martijn Rasser

  CNAS senior fellow

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  "a key enabler of fields such as robotics and AI." [...] "work with key allies and partners" [...] "restricting sales to China." Unverified source (2019)

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  Thea D. Rozman Kendler

  BIS export controls official

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  Thank you to WorldECR and editor Tom Blass for including me in this terrific event, focused on trade control law and regulations, policy, and practice.  I’m particularly glad to participate in the London version of this conference – my time as Assist... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Dario Amodei

  Research Scientist at OpenAI

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  This means that in 2026-2027 we could end up in one of two starkly different worlds. In the US, multiple companies will definitely have the required millions of chips (at the cost of tens of billions of dollars). The question is whether China will al... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), U.S. Department of Commerce

  U.S. Commerce export control bureau

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  Throughout the Biden-Harris Administration, in coordination with U.S. allies and partners, BIS has taken novel approaches to address an ever-changing geopolitical and technological landscape and respond to increasingly sophisticated threat actors. A... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Chris McGuire

  CFR fellow on China tech

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  Yeah, I completely agree. I think we need to do both. I mean certainly on the most advanced Chinese fabs, we certainly should make sure that they are blocked from all US allies’ tools and completely blacklisted. The fact that allies can backfill is p... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Gregory C. Allen

  CSIS AI and tech expert

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  There are a lot of other places in the world that possess extraordinary technological capability that is relevant to great power competition, including that with China. The October 7th export controls that the Biden Administration adopted to restric... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Chris Coons

  U.S. Senator from Delaware

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  This bipartisan bill sends a strong signal from Congress that the United States, in coordination with our closest allies and partners, must ensure that the defining technologies of the twenty-first century are led by democratic partners and not autho... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Pete Ricketts

  U.S. Senator from Nebraska

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  The United States leads the AI race with Communist China due in large part to our dominance of global compute power. At the core of compute are advanced AI chips. The best AI chips are made by American companies. Denying Beijing access to these AI ch... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Paul Scharre

  CNAS executive and weapons expert

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  The United States has two asymmetric advantages over China in AI: chips and human talent. U.S. companies occupy critical chokepoints in the supply chain for manufacturing high-end chips, especially in the electronic design automation software used t... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Tim Kaine

  U.S. Senator from Virginia

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  Let's be clear in what this chip is. The H200 is used to train and deploy frontier AI systems--systems that U.S. national security Agencies have long warned have numerous military and intelligence applications. Previous administrations, working with... more Unverified source (2026)

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  Jake Sullivan

  Former U.S. National Security Advisor

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  So I'll be advised in what I say, because having some discretion in the diplomatic relationships with Japan and the Netherlands was critical to being able to achieve the kind of consensus we were able to achieve on semiconductor manufacturing equipme... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Thierry Breton

  EU internal market commissioner

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  dependencies are used as weapons against us; supply chains become geopolitical instruments. We cannot allow China to access the most advanced technologies, be they in semiconductors, quantum, cloud, edge, AI or connectivity. I see a very strong alig... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Alan F. Estevez

  U.S. BIS export controls chief

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  I announced during my testimony in July before both the Senate and the House that I was doing a China review. This is part of that China review. So we are going to continue to look at not just what we did in semiconductors, but areas that the Chinese... more Unverified source (2022)

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  Gina Raimondo

  U.S. Secretary of Commerce

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  We are moving aggressively to reform our current capabilities and create new ones to accomplish this goal. Together with the private sector, we are going to bolster our system of export controls, enhance our investment screening regimes, strengthen o... more Unverified source (2022)

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  Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China

  China's foreign ministry

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  coerced or courted some countries to adopt export restrictions against China. [...] Such bullying acts seriously violate market principles and the international trade order Unverified source (2023)

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  Jensen Huang

  Nvidia cofounder and CEO

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  so that amazing developers, including the ones in China, are able to build on American tech stack so that AI runs best Unverified source (2025)

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  David Sacks

  White House AI and crypto czar

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  THE LEADING AMERICAN SEMICONDUCTOR SHOULD NOT GO TO CHINA, BUT WE HAVE EXPORT CONTROLS [...] I DON'T THINK THAT WE NEED A NEW GLOBALIZED REGIME [...] Unverified source (2025)

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  Shu Jueting

  Chinese Commerce Ministry spokesperson

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  We are highly concerned about the United States' direct intervention and interference in the issue of high-tech exports by Dutch companies to China," Unverified source (2024)

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  Lin Jian

  Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson

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  The U.S. [...] abuses export controls [...] blocks and suppresses China’s chips and AI industry [...] China firmly opposes this Unverified source (2025)

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  Liesje Schreinemacher

  Dutch foreign trade minister

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  [English translation] The Dutch government will not cave under American pressure to drastically restrict the export of ASML’s chip machines to China. “We do something like that only on our own terms,” says Liesje Schreinemacher, the Minister for Fore... more Unverified source (2022)

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  Guo Jiakun

  Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson

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  The spokesperson of the Ministry of Commerce has responded to that. Let me stress that the US has been overstretching the concept of national security, politicizing and weaponizing trade and tech issues, and abusing export controls to maliciously sup... more Unverified source (2025)

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