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Professor Johanna Weaver, Director, Tech Policy Design Centre, Australian National University

Clampdown on chip exports is the most consequential US move against China yet

When Nancy Pelosi travelled to Taiwan in August, it made front page news around the world and raised the spectre of all-out war between the US and China.

Early in October, the Biden administration made a far more decisive move against China – but it barely made the news in Australia.

Biden decided to unequivocally sever China’s access to high-end computer chips (aka semiconductors).

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