After incoming US President Joe Biden’s current moves to enact a stronger trade restrictions against China, Beijing has launched fierce protests against the US.  ,
Biden made three significant goes against China during the last year before handing his control to Republican President-elect Donald Trump on January 20.
While China’s Foreign Ministry criticized Biden for failing to “have a correct strategy perception and match words with actions”, Chinese media and commentators directly called Biden a “liar” and a “villain” . ,  ,
The state-owned China Daily reported in an editor on January 15 that the Biden presidency has been taking the last few times before it leaves business to significantly worsen for blind economic abuse and coercion.
President Biden proclaimed from his first day in office that he would handle the country’s” complicated and significant relations with China” in a “responsible” manner, but over the past four years he has veered resolutely to a very careless way.
Meng Yan, a Shanxi-based military journalist, says in an article that Biden has” entirely torn off the face of dishonesty, revealed a violent encounter and stabbed China time and again since previous November”.
” We don’t need to explain how dishonest and obscene he was in the past.” His new behavior demonstrated that he did not possess kind deeds and thoughts,” Meng says. ” He is a villain”.
He claims that during this four-year name, Biden has broken his promise to stop fighting a “new Cold War” and overhaul China’s program.
Nevertheless, Chinese President Xi Jinping on January 17 held a phone call with Trump to discuss business, Taiwan and other problems, Xinhua reported.
Xi told Trump that it is obvious that China and the US, two main countries with different national circumstances, have some variations. He claimed that the secret to understanding each other’s main concerns and interests is to find the best ways to solve problems.
Trump stated in a post on Truth Social that” the visit was a very good one for both China and the USA.” I anticipate that we will work together and begin right away to address some issues.
He added:” We discussed balancing business, fentanyl, TikTok and many other topics. I pledge to make the world more quiet and secure under President Xi.
Biden’s last goes
Biden unveiled the regulatory framework on January 14 that did start limiting imports of British AI chips and models on January 31.
The regulatory model could:
- If high-end AI cards are sent to foreign countries outside of the US, US companies must qualify for trade licenses.
- If businesses want to buy US cards for their data centers,  , or other closely related countries, they must apply for validated end-user position.
- If closed-source AI models that have been trained on a high level of computing power ( more than 1026 operations ) are shipped to foreign countries, US companies are required to apply for export licenses. (” Open-weight” AI models allow developers to build upon and adapt previous work while” closed-source” AI models, such as ChatGPT, keep their code and training data confidential. )  ,
In brief, the US will allow unrestricted access to its high-end AI systems for America’s closest friends, cap the number of Artificial cards that can be exported to most places and forbid China, Russia, Iran and North Korea from obtaining the systems.
” This coverage will help develop a trusted technology habitat around the world and allow us to safeguard against the national security risks associated with AI,” said US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.  ,
With this guideline,” We’ve done that, and it will help protect the most cutting-edge AI systems and keep the benefits from our foreign opponents,” according to the statement.
This did not go over well in Beijing. In a press briefing on January 16, Guo Jiakun, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, stated that” the US keeps overstretching the concept of regional stability, politicizing and weaponizing commerce and technology issues, and using sanctions as a go-to tool.” What the US does is common abuse and economic force. China is deeply opposed to it and deplores it.
The most recent round of US chip restrictions, according to Sidley Austin LLP, differs from previous ones in many ways.  ,
It said the biggest shifts of the US device restrictions apply to nations” in the middle,” those that are neither clear US friends nor obvious US enemies. Additionally, the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security ( BIS ) chose to “regulate first, collect comments later” toward a significant revision of US export controls.
It claimed that the new regulations represent a significant change in how to control quantitative inputs for an AI concept itself.
ASML is affected
On April 1, the French authorities announced that it would change its regional trade power measure for advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment on January 15. It stated that more types of technology will be subject to a national authorization requirement as of that time.
Reinette Klever, the government’s foreign trade and development minister, claimed that the government had noticed increased security risks linked to the unrestricted export of chip-making equipment.  ,
ASML, the world’s largest chip-making equipment maker, is expected to be hurt by the Dutch government’s latest decision.  ,
Additionally, on January 15, the BIS made 25 Chinese companies and two Singapore-based companies members of its Entity List in two final rules.  ,
It accused them of supporting China’s development of advanced weapons systems, weapons of mass destruction, and high-tech surveillance applications, as well as of supporting advanced AI research and development.
Among the sanctioned, Sophgo was accused by the US of having ordered AI chips from Taiwan’s TSMC for Huawei.  ,
Yong Jian contributes to the Asia Times. He is a Chinese journalist who specializes in Chinese technology, economy and politics.  ,