The US is looking to restrict Chinese companies’ access to cloud-computing technology in a move that would further strain ties between Washington and Beijing, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
The Biden administration has significantly escalated the trade war with China by imposing sanctions last year to restrict the export of advanced semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China. The US has also pressured other countries that export the technology to impose similar measures.
The Journal report said the new rule would require US cloud companies to seek permission before providing cloud-computing services that use advanced artificial intelligence chips to Chinese customers. The idea is to prevent companies in China from gaining access to computing capabilities via cloud services that use the advanced semiconductors the US put export controls on.
The report comes as US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is preparing to visit China, where she is expected to arrive Thursday. According to The New York Times, Treasury officials are downplaying any expectations for major breakthroughs and say the purpose of the visit is just to improve communication.
The plans for the cloud restrictions demonstrate that economic tensions between the two powers will not ease anytime soon. The Biden administration is also trying to work out a mechanism to screen US investments in China, but it is facing some pushback on Wall Street and in Congress.
China has taken measures in response to the US semiconductor sanctions. Most recently, Beijing announced Monday that it would restrict the export of two metals crucial for making semiconductors, gallium and germanium. Experts told The South China Morning Post that the new restrictions are meant as a counter to the US semiconductor sanctions and could be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations with US officials.
Here comes another own goal by the brilliant managers of US foreign policy.
Guess which nation produces a majority of the world’s gallium and germanium.
Slow news day? Combined Eurasian server space is much larger than that of Anglo-American empire. If anything, it is Chinese that could restrict US access to “cloud technologies”
Seriously? China just 2 days ago decided to “restrict the export of two metals crucial for making semiconductors, gallium and germanium?” Until then, they were still supplying us with the stuff while we were restricting them from manufacturing advanced computers? There are only four possibilities. They are terribly nice, incredibly naïve, very stupid, or totally blind and can’t see/read the news. …What’s that? They’re definitely not blind? (Sarcasm alert)
Another middle finger exposure is on its way to Janet…!
That just means China will develop their own “cloud”.
Of course our politicians will suffer supreme butthurt when that occurs and will hold televised hearings about “banning” the China cloud because Chinese government spying is bad (whereas US government spying is good).
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It’s definitely Syria and Iran because they’re sneaky. They’re so sneaky, nobody caught them in the act of warmongering yet. (Sarcasm alert)
The Chinese have many restrictions on what American companies can do in China. They have also taken advantage of what American companies have given up to do business in China. We should be talking about how the Eccentric Billionaires Club, and the Eccentric Bureaucrats of America have sold out the American People for Eccentric gains.
Report: US Looks to Restrict Chinese Companies Access to Cloud Technologies
hmm. does the US think that China gives a flying – f*ck about the US cloud?
right then. the “cloud” is a mysterious ether-net place that yalls dimwits should feel free to send all of the extraneous B-Day photos, recipes, guitar solos and cute kitten videos that your already ridiculously huge hard-drive memory just cannot contain any longer.
if my allegedly ‘up-to-date’ Micro-Soft computer which was allegedly designed in the USA but was actually allegedly assembled in China is so feeble that it needs an off-site memory storage then odds are that it was sent to me with a wide-open back-door that the uncle sam insisted be placed there and could access at any time – without a warrant. figure it out dummies.
and that is why my name is spy on this and my avatar is a photo of the very smartest US Patriot of all time. did i mention; dummies?