Silicon Curtain: America’s Quest for Allied Export Controls against China

Author(s): Sophie-Charlotte Fischer
Editor(s): Brian G. Carlson, Oliver Thränert
Series Editor(s): Andreas Wenger
Book Title: Strategic Trends 2023: Key Developments in Global Affairs
Series: Strategic Trends
Pages: 39-61
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2023
Publication Place: Zürich

Export controls are playing an increasingly important role in the US government’s efforts to deny China access to critical technologies, and their far-reaching effects have already begun to reshape the global technology landscape. However, the Biden administration’s recently imposed export controls on China’s semiconductor sector have highlighted the challenges the US faces in securing the buy-in from allies that it needs to ensure their long-term effectiveness. The episode has also underscored some critical issues that allies have to confront in dealing with Washington as it pursues its sharpened technological goals vis-à-vis Beijing.

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Selected US Export Control Measures, 2017-2023

Key Countries and Companies Along the Semiconductor Value Chain