President Donald Trump’s forceful use of export controls on high-end, dual-use semiconductors to contain the Chinese Communist Party’s technological ambitions is one of the most important national security achievements of his first term. Export controls are a national security tool that restricts the technology that corporations can sell or transfer to American adversaries.
In a long-overdue answer to China’s predatory industrial policies and unfair trade practices, the first Trump administration pioneered the use of these tools to counter China’s efforts to dominate critical technologies and further devastate U.S. industry.
Less than 100 days into his second term, the president has already begun building on this legacy to continue protecting America’s national and economic security.
Strong Export Controls Make Communist China Squirm
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