Democracies should coordinate export controls on AI chips to China

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  Matt Pottinger

  Former deputy national security adviser

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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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  American Compass

  Conservative economics and policy think tank

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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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  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

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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...

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  John Cornyn

  U.S. Senator (R-TX)

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  votes For and says:

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

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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...

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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

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  Dario Amodei

  CEO at Anthropic

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  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.

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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.

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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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  Chris McGuire

  CFR fellow on China tech

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  The regulation acknowledges that exporting advanced AI chips to China poses serious national security risks, while simultaneously creating a pathway to permit their sale. The result is a framework that is strategically incoherent. [...] Shipments of ...

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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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  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...

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  Chris McGuire

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  The regulation acknowledges that exporting advanced AI chips to China poses serious national security risks, while simultaneously creating a pathway to permit their sale. The result is a framework that is strategically incoherent. [...] Shipments of ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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  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...

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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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  Guo Jiakun

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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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  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...

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