US Plans Narrow China Tech Investment Limits, Likely by 2024
- Executive order to focus on chips, AI and quantum computing
- Washington process means rules not likely to bite until 2024
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The Biden administration’s plans to restrict investments in China will be narrowly focused on cutting-edge technology, only new investments, and likely won’t go into effect until next year as the policy grinds through Washington’s bureaucracy.
Officials are aiming to wrap up a proposal by the end of August for the long-delayed program to screen and possibly prohibit investment in China’s semiconductor, quantum-computing and artificial intelligence sectors, according to people familiar with the plans, who asked not to be identified because the details are still private.