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Re:Biden cripples China's semiconductor industry overnight by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:49PM (#33267755)
That's a really slanted article, from the first sentence. I would take everything it says with a grain of salt.

That said... I question whether this is actually within the president's authority. What did he actually order? (No, I don't care what this article says. What was the actual order?) Does he, constitutionally, have the authority to do that?

Re:Biden cripples China's semiconductor industry overnight by slothsinc on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @05:10PM (#33267977)
The Washington Post also reports this:

"In a novel step that appears to have prompted some companies to broadly suspend trade with China, the rules also bar “U.S. persons” — including American factories, and Americans and U.S. green-card holders who work in foreign factories overseas — from supporting the development or production of advanced chips in China, unless they receive a U.S. government license." Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/17/export-...

"“There are green-card holders considered U.S. persons that are going to be in a bind. Do they want to stay in China and give up their U.S. person status or do they want to move?""

Re:Biden cripples China's semiconductor industry overnight by floxy on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @05:00PM (#33267873)
Re:Biden cripples China's semiconductor industry overnight by salawat on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @05:00PM (#33267879)
Yes. The President, as the Chief Executive, has the authority to manage anything w.r.t. foreign policy. This includes the imposition and management of tariffs (something not a lot of people realize Congress ceded to the executive), as well as imposing sanctions, or getting any of the basket of regulatory agencies operating under him to enact something tut sweet.

As far as I am aware, he added Semiconductor fab equipment to the restricted export list. ASML can, as a result, not sell those items to chinese customers without facing mucho pain from the U.S. in terms of sanctions or other unpleasantness. Anyone with U.S. citizenship who violates that restriction is in a great deal of hot water if it is found out about, and they try to return/are in the States.

Re:Biden cripples China's semiconductor industry overnight by fspeech on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @05:11PM (#33267989)
ASML has explicitly said that the new rules don't affect them much because they don't have many US parts in non-EUV machines: https://www.reuters.com/technology/asml-reports-better-than-...