Design of new high-tech export controls aimed at China: A sign of what’s to come?

The administration’s new, wide-reaching export controls crafted to block China from obtaining sensitive technology used in supercomputing and advanced computing could signal how the U.S. will approach future controls on critical and emerging technologies it wants to keep out of Beijing’s hands, analysts tell Inside U.S. Trade. The Bureau of Industry and Security last week unveiled sweeping controls targeting China’s ability to develop supercomputing and advanced supercomputing abilities. The controls layered existing mechanisms in a way that greatly expanded...