China’s latest export controls is a warning China won’t be passively squeezed out of global supply chain – state media

 

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China’s move to restrict the exports of two metals crucial for making semiconductors and electric vehicles is a warning that China will not be passively squeezed out of the global chips supply chain, the state-backed newspaper Global Times said in an editorial.

The imposition of export controls on some gallium and germanium products was a “practical way” of telling the US and its allies that their efforts to curb China from procuring more advanced technology was a “miscalculation”, the newspaper said.

“Why can’t China make the necessary adjustments and be more cautious about consuming its limited rare-earth resources to support those that have been sided with the US-led “decoupling” push from China?,” it said.

“There’s no reason for China to continue exhausting its own mineral resources, only to be blocked from pursuing technological development…,” it said.