Biden Admin Unveils New Chip Restrictions on ‘Adversary’ China

The new rules will place additional limits on the types of advanced semiconductors that U.S. firms can sell to communist China.

President Joe Biden looks at a quantum computer as he tours the IBM facility in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., on Oct. 6, 2022. IBM hosted the president to celebrate the announcement of a $20 billion investment in semiconductors, quantum computing, and other cutting-edge technology in New York state. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

The Biden administration is expanding its restrictions on semiconductor exports to China, seeking to slow the communist regime’s development of advanced military technologies.

The new rules will place additional limits on the types of advanced semiconductors that U.S. firms can sell to communist China, which the documents refer to as an “adversary” of the United States.