Noah Berman

Articles

Chips, China And Trade Secrets: How an Arrest In Brussels Could Tie Them Together

Belgian prosecutors are investigating whether a state-backed Chinese firm stole trade secrets from the country’s leading chipmaker before it collapsed.

The FCC vs the PRC

Brendan Carr, President Trump’s combative chair of the Federal Communications Commission, has made his agency a key player in U.S. China policy.

The Familiar Hong Kong Addresses in America’s Iran Sanctions

More than a third of the Chinese companies sanctioned last month for supporting Iran share office addresses with firms the U.S. has already blacklisted.

California-based Jupiter Systems sold high-tech wall screens to U.S. military and government clients. On June 14, The Wire China revealed how Jupiter was sold to a Chinese company in 2020 without the first Trump administration’s knowledge. Now Trump is back and on the case as...

Nvidia’s China Partners and the PLA

Around a fifth of the Chinese companies that Nvidia lists as partners have also won bids to supply China’s defense industry, including the People’s Liberation Army itself, according to procurement records.

Nvidia Uses The Specter of Huawei to Make Its Chip Exports Case

Before Nvidia won approval to sell more chips to China, it told the U.S. government that Huawei could have enough chips to satisfy global demand.

Chinese Auto Companies Test U.S. Tech Rules

ECARX is pressing ahead with an American partnership despite rules that make it hard for Chinese auto firms to enter the U.S. market.

Alan Estevez on Why Export Controls Work

The former BIS chief argues that export controls preventing China from buying the best chips and chipmaking equipment are achieving their goals.

Behind the Screens

A California manufacturer of TV walls for the U.S. military was quietly sold to a Chinese company. The U.S. wants it back.

Liz Cannon on How the U.S. Government Considers Chinese Tech

The former Commerce Department official explains why the U.S. government is concerned about Chinese cars and why she resigned earlier this year.

Assessing the Summit

There were no major breakthroughs — or disasters — at Donald Trump’s much hyped summit with Xi Jinping in Beijing. Does that make it a success? The Wire China polled four Chinese scholars, three American experts and the relative of a Chinese political prisoner.

Amid A Global Memory Chip Supply Crunch, Is China the Answer?

A worldwide shortage of vital memory chips could tempt the likes of Apple and Dell to buy more from Chinese suppliers, but they will have to weigh the commercial benefits against political risks.

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