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China Restricts Exports of Gallium, Germanium, Antimony in Response to US Chip Sanctions

China Restricts Exports of Gallium, Germanium, Antimony in Response to US Chip Sanctions

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China is imposing stricter export controls on key components used in making semiconductors, including gallium, germanium, and antimony, as well as graphite. The Chinese Commerce Ministry announced the move in response to the US expanding its list of Chinese companies subject to export controls on computer chip-making equipment. These chips are essential for advanced applications, including both technological and military uses. The restrictions will also subject exports of graphite to stricter reviews of end-users and end-uses. The move is part of the intensifying trade tensions between the US and China, which may escalate further ahead of the potential return of Donald Trump to the presidency.

Chinese Commerce Ministry
1. Any organisation or individual in any country or region violating the relevant regulations will be held accountable according to the law.
Lin Jian
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1. This will be another step along the road where China hopes that it will not harm China, and it will send messages to the rest of the world about China's unwillingness to sit by if its economic development and its national security — which is a very broad term in China — is somehow being compromised or threatened.
Jake Sullivan
US National Security Agency
1. Washington would keep working with allies and partners to proactively and aggressively safeguard our world-leading technologies and know-how so they aren't used to undermine our national security.
China Semiconductor Industry Association
1. U.S. chip products are no longer safe and reliable. China's related industries will have to be cautious in purchasing U.S. chips.
Wang Yiwei
1. The US often accuses China of diverting Western products and technologies for military purposes, but the US arms industry also uses raw materials sourced from China, even for weapons to be used by Ukraine.
Brady Wang
Counterpoint Research
1. As the US-China trade tensions have persisted for some time, many intermediary manufacturers in the supply chain have been stockpiling these materials.
Dylan Loh
Nanyang Technological University
1. It drives home an important point which is that China is not completely passive [and] there are some cards it can play and hit the US with as well with regards to chips.
2. The move is clearly a retaliatory strike at the US.
Claire Reade
Arnold & Porter
1. It's a hardening and a defensiveness on both the Chinese and the United States side, and it's not a new phenomenon for either country.