https://www.scmp.com/rss/523285/feed The latest news and top stories on the US Bureau of Industry and Security, which regulates sensitive exports, enforces export controls on dual-use items and technologies, and ensures compliance with international treaties. The institution has a crucial role in protecting critical US technologies such as semiconductors and AI, and for conducting Section 232 investigations into imports affecting national security. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Khushboo Razdan,Lucy Quaggin Khushboo Razdan,Lucy Quaggin Just hours apart on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, two congressional hearings laid bare the United States’ calibrated yet deeply sceptical approach to China, with senior officials stressing the pursuit of stable ties without trust and highlighting alleged Chinese efforts to steal or circumvent US technology restrictions. The officials’ appearances before Congress reflected bipartisan concern and underscored persistent tensions over trade and advanced technologies such as semiconductors, ahead of US... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3344521/us-seeks-healthy-trade-relations-china-does-not-trust-it-lawmakers-clarify?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3344521/us-seeks-healthy-trade-relations-china-does-not-trust-it-lawmakers-clarify?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:40 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump’s administration has pushed out a Commerce Department official whose office effectively barred ‍nearly all Chinese cars from the US market for national security reasons, according to people familiar with the matter. Elizabeth “Liz” Cannon has resigned as executive director for Information and Communications Technology and Services, an office created in 2022 to investigate threats to the supply chain from foreign adversaries, the people said. News of Cannon’s impending... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341071/trump-admin-pushes-out-official-whose-unit-banned-chinese-vehicles?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341071/trump-admin-pushes-out-official-whose-unit-banned-chinese-vehicles?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:49:13 +0000 Wency Chen Wency Chen Chinese companies are expected to shoulder higher costs for deploying advanced chips from the US, owing to a new 25 per cent tariff imposed by Washington on select high-performance semiconductors, according to analysts. The administration of US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the new import duties on advanced artificial intelligence chips covered Nvidia’s H200 and Advanced Micro Devices’ MI325X graphics processing units, as well as their equivalent products and derivatives. According to... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3340035/chinese-firms-incur-higher-costs-deploying-advanced-ai-chips-us-analysts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3340035/chinese-firms-incur-higher-costs-deploying-advanced-ai-chips-us-analysts?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:00:11 +0000 Xinmei Shen Xinmei Shen The US has officially green-lighted Nvidia to sell its H200 artificial intelligence chips in China, as the Trump administration seeks to strike a balance between curtailing China’s AI progress and maintaining American AI firms’ global market share. The H200, US chip giant Nvidia’s second-most-advanced AI processor, can be shipped to China under conditions that include that its China shipments account for no more than half of the amount sold domestically, according to the Department of Commerce’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3339797/us-government-approves-nvidia-h200-chip-exports-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3339797/us-government-approves-nvidia-h200-chip-exports-china?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:14:41 +0000 Bochen Han,Seong Hyeon Choi Bochen Han,Seong Hyeon Choi The senior Democrat on a US congressional committee focused on China is urging Secretary of State Marco Rubio to fill the State Department’s vacant post for Arctic affairs, citing intensifying competition with Beijing and adding to growing pressure to address the vacancy. The Ambassador-at-Large for Arctic Affairs leads US engagement with the eight-country Arctic Council and coordinates American interests related to safety and security, economic development and intergovernmental cooperation. The... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3336131/senior-us-democrat-urges-rubio-fill-arctic-affairs-post-halt-china-and-russias-rise?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3336131/senior-us-democrat-urges-rubio-fill-arctic-affairs-post-halt-china-and-russias-rise?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:05:25 +0000 Coco Feng,Bien Perez Coco Feng,Bien Perez When Dutch authorities seized control of chipmaker Nexperia almost two months ago, it resulted in a clash between the head office in Nijmegen and the company’s mainland China unit, which vowed to operate and meet orders as an independent enterprise. That dispute also exposed the vulnerability of global car supply chains, as any disruption in Nexperia’s shipments of so-called legacy chips would affect nearly every major European carmaker, as well as those in Japan and the United States. Here are... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3333737/timeline-sino-dutch-row-over-control-chipmaker-nexperia?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3333737/timeline-sino-dutch-row-over-control-chipmaker-nexperia?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:00:10 +0000 Frank Tang Frank Tang Washington should tighten its export controls by adding inspection staff and plugging loopholes to slow Beijing’s chipmaking advances and curb evasion efforts with support from allies such as the Netherlands and Japan, US lawmakers and experts said on Thursday. Such actions should be deployed, including empowering the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) to close trade loopholes and also targeting China’s national champion firms in the semiconductor sector as well as their US subsidiaries,... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3333608/us-officials-call-tougher-chip-rules-limit-chinas-gains?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3333608/us-officials-call-tougher-chip-rules-limit-chinas-gains?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:41:13 +0000 Bochen Han Bochen Han A senior US Democrat is urging the Commerce Department to investigate four Chinese semiconductor firms potentially tied to Dutch chipmaker Nexperia, warning they could threaten the safety and reliability of components used in cars across the US and its allies. The request marks the latest twist in the turmoil surrounding the Chinese-owned firm, which has become a flashpoint in broader disputes involving China, Europe, and the US, following months of internal conflicts, regulatory intervention... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3333456/top-democrat-demands-us-probe-4-chinese-firms-potentially-supplying-nexperia?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3333456/top-democrat-demands-us-probe-4-chinese-firms-potentially-supplying-nexperia?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Nov 2025 16:27:17 +0000 Bochen Han Bochen Han A leading advisory panel on China policy urged the US Congress on Tuesday to establish a “consolidated economic statecraft entity” to handle technological and other national security challenges posed by China’s “systematic and persistent evasion” of American export controls and sanctions. “This recommendation addresses the critical gap between export controls and sanctions as written and their actual enforcement, recognising that China and Russia continue to successfully circumvent existing... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3333177/us-panel-urges-economic-statecraft-body-tackle-chinas-growing-tech-challenge?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/diplomacy/article/3333177/us-panel-urges-economic-statecraft-body-tackle-chinas-growing-tech-challenge?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:01:06 +0000 Coco Feng Coco Feng The ongoing dispute between China and the Netherlands over chipmaker Nexperia has highlighted how geopolitical tensions can disrupt an otherwise smooth global supply chain, according to analysts. Based in Nijmegen, Netherlands, Nexperia exemplifies a typical multinational company with front-end fabrication plants in Hamburg, Germany, and Manchester, UK, as well as back-end assembly facilities across Asia, including Dongguan, China; Laguna, the Philippines; and Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. The... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3329781/nexperia-crisis-how-geopolitics-disrupts-global-chip-supply-chain?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3329781/nexperia-crisis-how-geopolitics-disrupts-global-chip-supply-chain?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Oct 2025 02:00:10 +0000 SCMP SCMP Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Trump downplays Beijing threat to Taiwan as Australia touts rare earths deal While Trump celebrated a multibillion-dollar minerals deal with Canberra aimed at curbing China’s leverage in trade talks, he also dominated the encounter by opining that Beijing had no plans to invade Taiwan and posed no real threat in the Indo-Pacific. 2. How a single rule change... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3329826/ck-hutchison-panama-deal-hope-new-theory-wests-view-china-scmp-daily-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3329826/ck-hutchison-panama-deal-hope-new-theory-wests-view-china-scmp-daily-highlights?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:15:08 +0000 Kandy Wong Kandy Wong When Beijing expanded its rare earth export controls earlier this month, it appeared to mark a fresh escalation in the US-China trade war. But for many observers, the dispute actually began over a week earlier – and its trigger was not a Chinese action, but an American one. Though it drew little fanfare at the time, the decision by the US Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) to widen its trade blacklists in late September has had far-reaching effects. It not only pushed Beijing to take... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3329680/how-single-rule-change-sparked-major-flare-us-china-tensions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3329680/how-single-rule-change-sparked-major-flare-us-china-tensions?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:14 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Nexperia has withheld access to work accounts and halted salaries for its employees in China, according to local news reports citing a letter from the Chinese unit of the Dutch chipmaker, marking the latest escalation in a growing political dispute between the Netherlands and China. The Chinese unit of Nexperia informed customers on Friday that it had been notified by headquarters that salary payments would cease and employees’ access to company systems would be suspended, according to Chinese... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3329516/dutch-chipmaker-nexperia-said-halt-salaries-and-system-access-chinese-employees?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3329516/dutch-chipmaker-nexperia-said-halt-salaries-and-system-access-chinese-employees?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 18 Oct 2025 09:30:57 +0000 Wency Chen Wency Chen Chinese semiconductor companies, part of the more than 600 exhibitors at an industry event in Shenzhen this week, unveiled an array of advanced products that appear to bolster the country’s broad push towards tech self-reliance. At the three-day WeSemiBay Semiconductor Ecosystem Expo 2025, which concludes on Friday, Shenzhen municipal government-backed SiCarrier, which is known to work with Huawei Technologies, drew much attention when the chip equipment maker presented more than a dozen... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3329267/tech-war-shenzhen-semiconductor-expo-shows-chinas-progress-tech-self-reliance?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3329267/tech-war-shenzhen-semiconductor-expo-shows-chinas-progress-tech-self-reliance?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:00:16 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao China has voiced support for local electronics parts supplier Wingtech as it battles authorities in the Netherlands over control of its European semiconductor unit. The state-backed China Semiconductor Industry Association (CSIA) said in a statement on Tuesday that it “firmly supports” CSIA member Wingtech in defending its rights, a day after the Chinese company said its European subsidiary Nexperia, which it acquired in 2019, was under temporary external management following an order from the... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3328918/china-vows-support-wingtech-dutch-national-security-battle-over-nexperia?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3328918/china-vows-support-wingtech-dutch-national-security-battle-over-nexperia?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 14 Oct 2025 06:30:09 +0000 Alice Li,Kandy Wong,Ralph Jennings Alice Li,Kandy Wong,Ralph Jennings Washington’s decision to broaden its trade blacklist could put many overseas subsidiaries of Chinese firms under scrutiny, potentially disrupting their “going global” strategies and reigniting trade tensions between the two superpowers, analysts said. The US Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced on Monday that any company at least 50 per cent owned by firms already on the US Entity List or the Military End-User List – which target entities Washington deems a security threat – will now... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3327401/chinas-going-global-strategy-risk-after-us-widens-its-trade-blacklist?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3327401/chinas-going-global-strategy-risk-after-us-widens-its-trade-blacklist?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:00:08 +0000 Xinmei Shen Xinmei Shen Chinese chipmaker Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Group, which was blacklisted by the US government over the weekend, said its supply chain was resilient and that China was set to play a bigger role in tech innovation. The company said in a statement issued on Saturday that it had always operated in a “lawful and compliant manner” and adhered to international rules. Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics said it would remain “independent and controllable”, and continue to engage in “open collaboration”... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3325607/tech-war-chinese-chipmaker-fudan-microelectronics-shrugs-impact-us-sanctions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3325607/tech-war-chinese-chipmaker-fudan-microelectronics-shrugs-impact-us-sanctions?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Sep 2025 09:39:05 +0000 Frank Chen,Ralph Jennings Frank Chen,Ralph Jennings When David Bruntz, vice-president of the US Meat Export Federation, recently began looking for drones to monitor the cattle on his Nebraska ranch, he found that only one brand offered a “reasonably priced” solution: the Chinese tech giant DJI. The Shenzhen-based company already dominates the US drone market, and its products are now rapidly being adopted across the agricultural sector as the firm rolls out specialised solutions for sowing fields, spraying crops and tracking livestock. “It’s... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3322013/hard-switch-why-us-farmers-are-embracing-chinese-drones-despite-concerns?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3322013/hard-switch-why-us-farmers-are-embracing-chinese-drones-despite-concerns?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 17 Aug 2025 12:00:11 +0000 Alice Li Alice Li The United States has launched investigations into imports of drones and polysilicon – two sectors where China holds a global lead – in a move that could pave the way for tariffs and give Washington leverage in trade negotiations between the world’s two largest economies, analysts said. The US Bureau of Industry and Security released a document on Monday, seeking public comments as it moves forward with the investigation, which began on July 1 under “Section 232” of the Trade Expansion... https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3318317/double-edged-sword-us-probe-chinas-drone-dominance-risk-analysts-say?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3318317/double-edged-sword-us-probe-chinas-drone-dominance-risk-analysts-say?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:00:08 +0000