{"id":15340,"date":"2023-08-11T15:51:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T14:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techinsight.net\/?p=15340"},"modified":"2023-08-11T15:51:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T14:51:54","slug":"us-government-to-block-investment-in-chinese-tech-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techinsight.net\/regulation\/us-government-to-block-investment-in-chinese-tech-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"US Government To Block Investment In Chinese Tech Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For a little while now the U.S government has been growing suspicious of the Chinese tech industry. After the grilling of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/mar\/23\/key-takeaways-tiktok-hearing-congress-shou-zi-chew\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TikTok\u2019s CEO<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in congress followed by a proposal of <a href=\"https:\/\/techinsight.net\/category\/security\/cyber-security\/compliance-and-regulations\/\">restrictions<\/a> on China\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.media\/latest\/biden-restricts-chinas-access-to-american-ai-and-cloud-tech\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cloud sector<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Biden now seeks to entirely ban American investment in the Chinese tech industry. So how did we get here and why does the U.S government feel these actions are justified?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">American Investors To Report Investments In Chinese Tech Industry<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The US government will call for American companies to report the investments they make in the Chinese tech industry, banning such investments in some cases. This will give the government unprecedented power to screen foreign deals made even by private companies. While some worry they may be overstepping, the government has said the measure would be enacted sensitively.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This move is the latest update in the increasingly tense relationship between the two countries. According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-66454313\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BBC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Chinese officials have said they are<em> \u201cvery disappointed\u201d<\/em> by the decision. Liu Pengyu, a spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington lamented that the US <em>\u201c<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">has continuously escalated suppression and restrictions on China&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Biden had made this decision as part of a wider policy to restrict American investment in companies from <em>\u201ccountries of concern\u201d<\/em> working within quantum computing, advanced semiconductors and sub-sectors of AI.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The rules won\u2019t come into effect immediately. We\u2019re still awaiting a period of public comment where the boundaries of the proposed policy should become clearer. Officials have said the measure is a <em>\u201cnational security action, not an economic one\u201d.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Conclusion\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the US government may see this as a necessary defensive move in what is becoming an increasingly antagonistic international relationship, investors and business leaders worry about this new expansion of government oversight. Do you think this decision is worth the economic price? Or does it not go far enough?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a little while now the U.S government has been growing suspicious of the Chinese tech industry. After the grilling of TikTok\u2019s CEO in congress followed by a proposal of restrictions on China\u2019s cloud sector, Biden now seeks to entirely ban American investment in the Chinese tech industry. So how did we get here and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,113,56,60],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-tech","8":"category-finance","9":"category-regulation","10":"category-security"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techinsight.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techinsight.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techinsight.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techinsight.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techinsight.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techinsight.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techinsight.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techinsight.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techinsight.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techinsight.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}