The head of the Department of Treaty and Law of the Ministry of Commerce answered a reporter's question on China's WTO lawsuit against the United States for abusing export control measures to restrict trade in chips and other products mofcom.gov.cn/article/syxwfb…

With my MERICS colleague Antonia Hmaidi, we write about the impact and perception of the October controls from a European perspective to explain why early expectations of an easy deal were divorced from reality.

People have started calling the Cold War “Cold War 1”. Cool cool cool cool cool!

Featuring excellent analysis from Jabin T Jacob 鄭嘉賓 on domestic economy & politics, Antonia Hmaidi on hacktivism, David O’Brien on Xinjiang, Bill Hayton on ties w/ Vietnam, James Laurenceson 罗震 @j-laurenceson.bsky.social on ties w/ Australia, Philip Lott on intl standards setting, & Sam Bresnick rewriting intl rules

Much attention recently to dominance of Dutch giant ASML in advanced lithography + US efforts to restrict exports to China. But the real workhorse of industry is less advanced lithography, currently subject of trilateral negotiations on new controls. What is at stake? A thread.🧵

Good thread on some of the technical details. Jacob Gunter Rebecca Arcesati

Thank you, Bonnie Glaser / 葛來儀 and GMF Indo-Pacific! I’ve learnt a lot. Until next time, Taiwan.

"Washington is framing China’s rise as a threat and a reason to re-shore its manufacturing industries with subsidies" bit.ly/3ORRlzH | by Antonia Hmaidi and Wendy Chang.

TSMC is creating a new joint venture with Infineon, Bosch and NXP, three European #semiconductor companies in Dresden. Our expert Antonia Hmaidi (Antonia Hmaidi) shares her view: “This plant will increase supply chain security for European companies. 1/4

Excited to see the outcome of a year-long research endeavor and a fantastic team effort at MERICS. Together w/ Antonia Hmaidi, Kai and Wendy Chang, I spent much time and energy trying to understand what one may call the Europe-🇨🇳 AI relationship: 🧵 merics.org/en/report/ai-e…

#Taiwans #Chipindustrie ist entscheidend für China. Eine Eskalation nach den taiwanesischen Parlamentswahlen ist unwahrscheinlich. Trotzdem behält Taiwan die Herstellung der modernsten #Chips bei. Antonia Hmaidi vom MERICS analysiert die Situation. bit.ly/48Sth6O

Washington’s regular tweaks will make its high-tech #exportcontrols more effective in the short term, but trickier to manage beyond that, say Antonia Hmaidi & Wendy Chang. They discuss the long-term side-effects for #China and the US in their new comment: merics.org/en/comment/tec…