By guest author Slati Meyer from the Wall Street Journal.
July 2, 2023
Industry executives see the bans on gallium and germanium as retaliation for limits the U.S. and others have put on sales of chips and chip-making equipment to China, which Washington says will prevent Beijing from developing technologies that might give it an edge in areas critical to national security. China says those measures are meant to contain its economic rise. Both countries want to dominate in areas such as AI, quantum computing and clean-energy technology.