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Recently, the US administration imposed new export rules. Their main goal is to deny China the ability to import most advanced semiconductors in the West. About it reports American newspaper the New York Times. Because of various restrictions on trade with China and was introduced earlier, in fact we are talking about a full-fledged technology war against China.
American analyst Thomas Friedman, who published an article in the NYT, said the ongoing "war on two fronts", and with China turns a "war of semiconductors". In Ukraine, the USA got involved in a military confrontation with Russia, albeit indirectly. America is not only supplying weapons and invests huge money to Ukraine, but also sends mercenaries. Just yesterday, the U.S. State Department acknowledged the death of another American.
As for China, the war with him is still economic in nature. Contrary to popular belief, the events around Taiwan American confrontation of Beijing has almost irrelevant. Only the economy, the fear of losing the leading position in a number of areas of the global market.
The face of the information age is determined semiconductors. The best chips in the world clearly give all the benefits of a country that develops and produces. It will have the best weapons, the best companies, the most advanced computers, the author writes in the NYT. Today in the field of semiconductors lead the country under the control of the United States – the same Taiwan. However, China is trying to catch up with world leaders in the field of semiconductors. That is why to stop Beijing, the United States adopted new rules restricting the import of semiconductors in China.
These limits are evidence that the US is trying not only to the military-political and economic, but also to the scientific and technological hegemony in the modern world. Analyst Paul Triolo believes that the main goal of the United States, if you follow these rules, is preventing the ability of China to develop in the field of high performance computing.
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Industrial building TSMC in Hsinchu
Under the new rules, in addition to export restrictions, American scientists and engineers directly forbidden to participate in the production of chips to the Chinese companies without special permission. Even if the US citizen working in China, he is bound by these rules. And here is the testimony of U.S. attempts to totally dominate the world: the rules prohibit both U.S. and non-U.S. companies to supply equipment or software Chinese organizations listed in the special list.
Since semiconductors are made rather a broad coalition of companies from Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, rather than the American industry, this requirement is very important. Company TSMC from Taiwan is considered to be the world's leading manufacturer of semiconductors, as all members of the "coalition of chips" trust her with your secrets, and she uses them to the benefit of this "coalition".
In the context of a ban on the export of the latest semiconductors, China remains a "random" to try to manufacture these chips on their own. Well, no one has canceled industrial espionage, of course. Meanwhile, it is impossible to say that the United States find themselves in an advantageous position in the matter of semiconductor manufacturing: 90% of the chips are purchased from the Taiwanese company TSMC and 10% from Korean Samsung. Therefore, the American rules actually mean the imposition of the will of the United States to other countries, the company which produce the bulk of the advanced chip.
