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Nov 19, 2024 | 
csis.org | William Reinsch |Jack Whitney |Matthew Schleich
Export controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment (SME) represent a key focus of ongoing U.S. government efforts to “choke off” China’s access to leading-edge semiconductors. The United States, along with allies such as the Netherlands and Japan, is a global leader in production and R&D for chipmaking tools.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
csis.org | Jack Whitney |Matthew Schleich |William Reinsch
U.S. policymakers are increasingly leveraging export controls on advanced semiconductors and related technologies to constrain China’s development of military and dual-use capabilities. But notably, expanding U.S. trade restrictions have heightened political and commercial pressure on Chinese semiconductor companies to wean off U.S. technology wherever possible, with potential negative impacts for U.S. technological leadership.
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May 23, 2024 | 
tribunecontentagency.com | Matthew Schleich |Thibault Denamiel
U.S. semiconductor export controls are a double-edged sword. When controls work, they help prevent advanced chip technologies from falling into the hands of bad actors and other U.S. adversaries. However, these same policies strain the very businesses that propelled the United States into technological leadership in the first place. In limiting foreign semiconductor capabilities, Washington also limits its own.
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May 23, 2024 | 
thediplomat.com | Matthew Schleich |Thibault Denamiel
U.S. semiconductor export controls are a double-edged sword. When controls work, they help prevent advanced chip technologies from falling into the hands of bad actors and other U.S. adversaries. However, these same policies strain the very businesses that propelled the United States into technological leadership in the first place. In limiting foreign semiconductor capabilities, Washington also limits its own.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
csis.org | Thibault Denamiel |Matthew Schleich |William Reinsch |Scholl Chair
Last week, 166 trade ministers and their respective delegations traveled to Abu Dhabi for the 13th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO)—otherwise known as MC13. Despite cautious optimism from observers and delegates, MC13 failed to close out several lines of negotiations. Even as members extended the close of negotiations, once-promising deals on fisheries and agriculture were ultimately not closed as the delegations left Abu Dhabi on Friday.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
csis.org | Thibault Denamiel |Matthew Schleich |William Reinsch |Scholl Chair
IntroductionThe practice of third-party litigation financing (TPLF) has recently come under increased scrutiny amid growing concerns that foreign entities could exert influence on U.S. litigation, moving legislators to advance a bipartisan bill that would require the disclosure of foreign entities investing in litigation in federal courts.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
csis.org | Thibault Denamiel |Matthew Schleich |William Reinsch |Will Todman
IntroductionMaritime shipping, the backbone of international commerce, is under stress resulting from several crises in different chokepoints across the globe. Chief among them is instability caused by the Houthi attacks on ships in the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, an obligatory route for vessels transiting the Suez Canal.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
csis.org | William Reinsch |Matthew Schleich |Thibault Denamiel |Scholl Chair
On November 3, 2023, government representatives from across the Western Hemisphere flocked to Washington for the American Partnership for Economic Prosperity (APEP) summit. The event held economic and geopolitical importance: APEP aims to foster closer trading ties between Western Hemisphere nations and counter China’s efforts to acquire influence in Latin America though development projects.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
csis.org | William Reinsch |Matthew Schleich |Thibault Denamiel |Scholl Chair
The Bureau of Industry and Security released a new set of rules this week aimed at updating and complementing its regulations from October 7, 2022. Last year’s rules were intended to target the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) military artificial intelligence (AI) development by curbing the country’s access to advanced semiconductors and the tools used to manufacture them.
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Sep 26, 2023 | 
csis.org | William Reinsch |Scholl Chair |Matthew Schleich
Huawei’s new smartphone, the Mate 60 Pro, has been shown to contain a powerful new chip, defying U.S. attempts to curb China’s semiconductor industry. In a device “teardown,” TechInsights and Bloomberg News found that the 7-nanometer (nm) chip was produced by China’s top domestic chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC).
