US-China Relations

Lawmakers Urge Trump Admin to Exercise Leverage Over China With Chipmaking Equipment Controls

‘These tools are essential not only for producing the advanced AI chips that will shape the future of both economic and military power,’ they said.
Lawmakers Urge Trump Admin to Exercise Leverage Over China With Chipmaking Equipment Controls
Chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) speaks during an event in Washington on Feb. 11, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times
Catherine Yang
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to work with the Trump administration to limit China’s access to equipment that could enable it to achieve self-sufficiency in advanced chipmaking.

Chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Brian Mast (R-Fla.) led the group in writing to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick on Feb. 9.

Catherine Yang
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Catherine Yang has been with The Epoch Times in New York since 2008. She also launched and previously served as chief editor of American Essence magazine and Epoch Health.