Democracies should coordinate export controls on AI chips to China

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Arguments for

Closing cross-border loopholes

Supporters say unilateral controls leave gaps between jurisdictions that China can exploit through foreign suppliers and other workarounds. They argue democracies need shared rules or plurilateral regimes so backfilling and circumvention do not undermine the policy.

America and its allies have a massive lead over China in advanced AI chip production, but keeping that edge requires that we and our friends be on the same page. Allied export controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment suffer from meaningful gaps that China continues to ex…

Chris Griswold · Apr 8, 2026 · full quote
A strategy that aligns the U.S. and its allies in stopping the flow of advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment to our adversaries is key to protecting U.S. technological advantages. When foreign suppliers of advanced chipmaking tools are not subject to the same rules as U.…

Jacob Feldgoise · Apr 8, 2026 · full quote
Multi-layered controls are only effective with shared architecture and alliances that bind them. If individual countries act unilaterally, each layer of governance becomes a national regime, leaving gaps between jurisdictions – and this tends to be where circumvention happens.

Rowan Wilkinson · Apr 29, 2026 · full quote
Congress must also ensure it works with U.S. partners and allies to develop and pursue plurilateral export control regimes, as doing so increases the effectiveness of controls and reduces the risk of foreign producers’ backfilling market share previously held by U.S. companies.

Mike Flynn · Jun 11, 2026 · full quote
Washington cannot substantially slow China’s technological development without cooperation from US allies that produce memory chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipment essential for advanced AI computing.

Sojun Park · Jun 26, 2026 · full quote

Preserving the AI lead

Proponents argue advanced chips are the main bottleneck shaping the AI balance, and that U.S. and allied controls have already helped keep China behind. Coordinated restrictions are presented as a way to secure a lead in frontier AI and related technologies for the U.S. and its allies.

Today, China’s best AI chips are much less capable than America’s – and, thanks in significant part to U.S. and allied export controls, they are falling further behind.

David Feith · Jun 11, 2026 · full quote
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 allies, imposed export contro…

Tim Kaine · Dec 18, 2025 · full quote
US export controls on frontier chips and SME to China have been a major contributor to the US’s overall lead in AI, and these policies need to be expanded, tightened, and coordinated with other likeminded states.

Dario Amodei · full quote
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 also be able to get millions of …

Dario Amodei · Jan 2025 · full quote
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 alignment in this agenda between t…

Thierry Breton · 2023 · full quote

Limiting military misuse

Supporters contend that frontier chips, chipmaking tools, and rented compute can support military and intelligence applications, and that civilian and military uses are hard to separate. They therefore back coordinated controls that also cover diversion through cloud access, subsidiaries, smuggling, or front companies.

We can’t let our adversaries — especially China — dodge our export controls by simply renting what they can’t buy. This bill gives American companies the legal clarity they need to do the right thing and report when bad actors are trying to use our own cloud infrastructure to thr…

Josh Gottheimer · Jun 26, 2026 · full quote
If we're going to export advanced AI chips, we need confidence that they don’t end up in the hands of the Chinese military. We’re continuously seeing examples of Chinese espionage, theft, and diversion over and over again. We can’t allow this to keep happening.

Brian Mast · Mar 26, 2026 · full quote
To maintain the U.S. advantage in compute, this Committee should signal support for the following. First, to close loopholes that allow China to access compute and frontier AI capabilities through cloud computing, API access, and third-country subsidiaries. Second, the United Sta…

Rush Doshi · Mar 17, 2026 · full quote
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 dual-use nature of AI makes civ…

American Compass · Oct 27, 2025 · full quote
Communist China and its accomplices continue to smuggle advanced AI chips to undermine the US and threaten our national security. My bipartisan Chips Security Act would ensure our chips don't illegally fall into the hands of our adversaries.

Tom Cotton · 2026 · full quote
The ability to design and produce semiconductors lies at the heart of the technology competition with Communist China. SME is an important dual-use technology. For too long, our export controls have been a patchwork of entity-based restrictions that Beijing easily bypasses using …

Pete Ricketts · Apr 8, 2026 · full quote

Sharing costs fairly

Some advocates stress that when U.S. restrictions are tougher than allies', American firms and workers absorb the costs while foreign competitors free-ride or replace lost sales. In their view, coordination makes the policy both more effective and more even-handed among democratic partners.

The ability to design and produce semiconductors lies at the heart of the technology competition with Communist China. SME is an important dual-use technology. For too long, our export controls have been a patchwork of entity-based restrictions that Beijing easily bypasses using …

Pete Ricketts · Apr 8, 2026 · full quote
For too long, the United States has borne the economic and political costs of semiconductor export controls while leaving room for foreign suppliers to free ride, backfill, or slow-roll their alignment. The MATCH Act creates a simple rule: either our allies match our controls on …

Samuel Hammond · Apr 8, 2026 · full quote
Right now, China is getting access to the specialized equipment used to make advanced computer chips. This bill stops that by tightening the rules and making sure everyone plays by the same rules, so American workers aren’t getting screwed.

Josh Riley · Apr 22, 2026 · full quote
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 problematic. But I think you’re…

Chris McGuire · Nov 20, 2025 · full quote
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

Bill Huizenga · 2025 · full quote

Arguments against

Trade and security overreach

Opponents argue that these controls abuse the concept of national security and politicize or weaponize trade and technology. They say coordinated restrictions against China violate market principles, damage business interests, and destabilize industrial supply chains and the wider trade order.

China consistently opposes any practice of overstretching the concept of national security and abusing export controls.

Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China · Apr 25, 2026 · full quote
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 suppress China. This has seriousl…

Guo Jiakun · Jan 14, 2025 · full quote
coerced or courted some countries to adopt export restrictions against China. [...] Such bullying acts seriously violate market principles and the international trade order

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China · 2023 · full quote
The U.S. [...] abuses export controls [...] blocks and suppresses China’s chips and AI industry [...] China firmly opposes this

Lin Jian · 2025 · full quote

Doubts about effectiveness

A smaller critical view says the chip-export controls are not working and interfere with another strategy that might work better. This objection challenges the current approach on effectiveness grounds.

Back in 2022, I supported the Biden chip-export controls on China. After a week with Chinese AI researchers and tech leaders, I've changed my mind. The controls are not working, and they obstruct another strategy that just might work. [...]

Sebastian Mallaby · 2026 · full quote

Middle ground

Consultation over copy-pasting

Some supporters favor coordination but reject allies simply copying U.S. measures one-to-one. They emphasize consultation, each partner's own assessment, and diplomacy first, with harder extraterritorial steps treated as a fallback.

[English translation] “We do something like that only on our own terms.” [...] “The U.S. can’t force us.” [...] “The Netherlands will not copy the American measures one-to-one. We make our own assessment — and we do that in consultation with partner countries such as Japan and th…

Liesje Schreinemacher · Nov 18, 2022 · full quote
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 equipment export controls. So, for yo…

Jake Sullivan · Jun 11, 2025 · full quote
A strategy that aligns the U.S. and its allies in stopping the flow of advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment to our adversaries is key to protecting U.S. technological advantages. When foreign suppliers of advanced chipmaking tools are not subject to the same rules as U.…

Jacob Feldgoise · Apr 8, 2026 · full quote

Buy time through careful design

Another nuanced view treats controls less as a way to permanently lock China in place than as a way to add time and cost at the frontier. From this perspective, success depends on enforcement, tracking, and government-to-government arrangements that reduce circumvention and reliance on non-U.S. suppliers.

Export controls on AI chips should be viewed through a more demanding lens: not a mechanism to lock China in place or regain a diminished competitive market, but an investment in time and cost at the frontier and an effort with allied and partner attention fixed firmly upon what …

The Economy Editorial Board · Jun 29, 2026 · full quote
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 restricted nations could sour…

Linda Moore · 2025 · full quote
Achieving this outcome depends not only on policy design, but also on effective enforcement, robust tracking systems, and international coordination to maintain a computing and AI advantage.

Angela Luna · Jun 24, 2026 · full quote

Insights

Across supportive quotes, coordination is often discussed alongside controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment, cloud access, APIs, subsidiaries, and smuggling, not just direct chip exports.
Several supportive voices describe a sequencing question: work with allies first through diplomacy and consultation, then use unilateral or extraterritorial measures if alignment fails.
The pro-control case mixes security and economic rationales, pairing military and intelligence concerns with worries that foreign firms will backfill sales lost by U.S. companies.
In the provided quotes, support comes from lawmakers, export-control officials, think tanks, a European commissioner, a Dutch minister, a Japanese fellow, and an AI company, while the against side is dominated by Chinese official statements plus one non-Chinese critic.
Even among supporters, the stated objective varies from securing a durable AI lead to buying time and raising costs at the frontier.

The debate in these quotes centers less on whether advanced AI chips matter strategically than on whether coordinated controls can be made effective, proportionate, and durable across allied jurisdictions. Supporters largely agree that gaps between democracies weaken any restriction, but they differ on how much coercion, extraterritorial reach, and enforcement architecture are justified to close those gaps. Opponents challenge the policy as trade overreach or as an ineffective strategy.

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Jim Banks
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We are in an AI race with the Chinese Communist Party that’s powered by the advanced chips, and the winner will determine the future of global military superiority. I’m leading the AI OVERWATCH Act to reinforce President Trump’s policy and ensure con...
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We can’t let our adversaries — especially China — dodge our export controls by simply renting what they can’t buy. This bill gives American companies the legal clarity they need to do the right thing and report when bad actors are trying to use our o...
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Today, China’s best AI chips are much less capable than America’s – and, thanks in significant part to U.S. and allied export controls, they are falling further behind.
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We reiterate bipartisan calls for strict enforcement of export controls and the closure of loopholes that allow AI chips and manufacturing equipment to reach Beijing.
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If policymakers in the US and allied democracies act to close these two channels propping up China’s AI models—illicit and evasive compute access and illicit model access—then we have a potentially once-in-a-generation opportunity to secure our lead.
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Right now, China is getting access to the specialized equipment used to make advanced computer chips. This bill stops that by tightening the rules and making sure everyone plays by the same rules, so American workers aren’t getting screwed.
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The SCALE Act will help secure the future of America’s dominance in artificial intelligence by ensuring American companies never sell the best chips in the world to China.
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Andy Kim
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I'm leading this effort to keep the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment out of the hands of China and other adversaries. This bill not only strengthens our export controls regime but importantly reinforces using diplomacy to build a u...
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The Institute for Progress endorses the MATCH Act. Export controls on chipmaking tools have been critical to maintaining the U.S. lead in AI computing power, which itself underpins American superiority in AI capabilities. But gaps in these controls r...
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Export controls on chipmaking tools are the foundation of America's technology competition strategy with China. They are directly responsible for U.S. leadership in emerging technologies such as AI and quantum computing and defense technologies of th...
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Preserving and enhancing export controls on semiconductor manufacturing are one of the most important things that America can do to win the AI race against China. The MATCH Act is an important tool to help ensure American dominance in this area and t...
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For too long, the United States has borne the economic and political costs of semiconductor export controls while leaving room for foreign suppliers to free ride, backfill, or slow-roll their alignment. The MATCH Act creates a simple rule: either our...
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America and its allies have a massive lead over China in advanced AI chip production, but keeping that edge requires that we and our friends be on the same page. Allied export controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment suffer from meaningful g...
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A strategy that aligns the U.S. and its allies in stopping the flow of advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment to our adversaries is key to protecting U.S. technological advantages. When foreign suppliers of advanced chipmaking tools are not s...
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For years, gaps in semiconductor equipment controls have undermined America’s most effective technology denial strategy. Although the United States has acted to restrict chokepoint tools, our allies don’t always follow suit — and China continues to e...
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The ability to design and produce semiconductors lies at the heart of the technology competition with Communist China. SME is an important dual-use technology. For too long, our export controls have been a patchwork of entity-based restrictions that ...
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Idaho and America are at the leading edge of semiconductor innovation. It is vital we maintain this position by strengthening our export controls and closing loopholes that our adversaries exploit to obtain critical technologies like semiconductor ma...
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China has made it abundantly clear that it intends to dominate the technologies that underpin both our economy and our national defense. The United States cannot afford to leave open back doors that allow the Chinese Communist Party to acquire the to...
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If we're going to export advanced AI chips, we need confidence that they don’t end up in the hands of the Chinese military. We’re continuously seeing examples of Chinese espionage, theft, and diversion over and over again. We can’t allow this to keep...
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To maintain the U.S. advantage in compute, this Committee should signal support for the following. First, to close loopholes that allow China to access compute and frontier AI capabilities through cloud computing, API access, and third-country subsid...
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The U.S. and its allies will require mutual cooperation on this front.
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Imagine, if you will, that the question before you today were whether the United States should sell China our advanced propulsion systems that make our nuclear submarines quiet and stealthy. [...] We would laugh at the premise there’s any debate. [.....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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"export controls" [...] "U.S. restrictions on AI chips" [...] "work hand in glove with our allies" [...] "not acquired by the PRC".
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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 Assista...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Satoshi Yamada
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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
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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...
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[English translation] “We do something like that only on our own terms.” [...] “The U.S. can’t force us.” [...] “The Netherlands will not copy the American measures one-to-one. We make our own assessment — and we do that in consultation with partner ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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.
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Elizabeth Warren
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has spent the past year lobbying the President to greenlight the sale of advanced AI chips to China, which could turbocharge China’s military and undercut American technological leadership.
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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
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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...
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The Economy Editorial Board
Editorial board of The Economy, a policy and economic analysis publication.

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Export controls on AI chips should be viewed through a more demanding lens: not a mechanism to lock China in place or regain a diminished competitive market, but an investment in time and cost at the frontier and an effort with allied and partner att...
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Sojun Park
Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Center for International Studies, researching international political economy and technology policy.

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Washington cannot substantially slow China’s technological development without cooperation from US allies that produce memory chips and semiconductor manufacturing equipment essential for advanced AI computing.
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Angela Luna
Technology and Innovation Policy Analyst at the American Action Forum.

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Achieving this outcome depends not only on policy design, but also on effective enforcement, robust tracking systems, and international coordination to maintain a computing and AI advantage.
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Mike Flynn
Senior Vice President and Counsel for Government Affairs and Economic Security Policy at the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI).

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Congress must also ensure it works with U.S. partners and allies to develop and pursue plurilateral export control regimes, as doing so increases the effectiveness of controls and reduces the risk of foreign producers’ backfilling market share previo...
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Rowan Wilkinson
Research Associate in Chatham House’s Digital Society Programme.

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Multi-layered controls are only effective with shared architecture and alliances that bind them. If individual countries act unilaterally, each layer of governance becomes a national regime, leaving gaps between jurisdictions – and this tends to be w...
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Tom Cotton
U.S. Senator from Arkansas (Republican); member of the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services Committees

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Communist China and its accomplices continue to smuggle advanced AI chips to undermine the US and threaten our national security. My bipartisan Chips Security Act would ensure our chips don't illegally fall into the hands of our adversaries.
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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...
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Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China
Chinese government ministry responsible for domestic and foreign trade and commercial policy.

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China consistently opposes any practice of overstretching the concept of national security and abusing export controls.
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Guo Jiakun
Chinese diplomat and MFA 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...
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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
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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
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Sebastian Mallaby
Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations; author and former Economist and Washington Post journalist

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Back in 2022, I supported the Biden chip-export controls on China. After a week with Chinese AI researchers and tech leaders, I've changed my mind. The controls are not working, and they obstruct another strategy that just might work. [...]
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