S8 Ep815: 15. US Chip Restrictions and Chinese Cyber Espionage Guest: Jack Burnham Jack Burnham details the Commerce Department's targeted restrictions on Chinese chipmakers and reports on the successful extradition of a Chinese hacker from Italy for stealing COVID
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:56.9 | I'm John Batchel. I welcome Jack Burnham of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, |
| 1:03.1 | my guide on dealing with the aggression of the People's Republic of China with regard high-end manufacturing of chips, microchips, AI, anything to do with the highest end right now in Silicon Valley. In this particular case, |
| 1:13.2 | it happens to be chipmakers in China, two of them, semiconductor manufacturing |
| 1:18.1 | international corporation shortened as SMIC, and Wah Hong, the second largest chipmaker. Jack, a very |
| 1:26.6 | good evening to you. These look like good customers until now. |
| 1:30.9 | What is the determination of the Commerce Department? Good evening to you. Thank you for having me. |
| 1:35.8 | So the Commerce Department's determination is to limit the sale of U.S. chipmaking equipment, |
| 1:42.5 | particularly to Wahong's latest facilities. Now, the Commerce |
| 1:48.1 | Department here is doing something that has been more common, particularly under the second |
| 1:52.4 | Trump administration, which is targeting particular individual Chinese companies and banning them |
| 1:59.3 | from acquiring certain American products. |
| 2:03.3 | So while the Biden administration took a pretty tough line on stopping the sale of |
| 2:09.2 | American semiconductor manufacturing components to China, the Trump administration has been a bit |
| 2:14.5 | more targeted into, rather than writing out large rules of regulation, |
| 2:18.8 | sending a little more targeted letters to specific American firms, banning them from selling to particular Chinese firms. |
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