US Senate Democrats launch renewed effort to counter China
US Senate Democrats launched a renewed effort to deal with competitors with China on Wednesday (Could 3), planning laws to spice up the nation's means to resist the Asian powerhouse on points from know-how to safety and threats to Taiwan.
After passing a Invoice final yr to spice up competitors with Beijing in semiconductors and different know-how, Senate Democratic chief Chuck Schumer and Democratic committee leaders stated they might write laws they hoped to introduce within the subsequent a number of months to restrict the circulation of know-how to China, deter China from initiating a battle with Taiwan and tighten guidelines to dam US capital from going to Chinese language corporations.
He stated final yr's Invoice – referred to as the "Chips and Science" act – had set a powerful basis.
"Right now, we’re saying a brand new initiative, one that can construct on this momentum and develop new and vital bipartisan laws," Schumer informed a press convention.
The Invoice President Joe Biden signed into regulation final yr approved greater than US$170 billion over 5 years to spice up US scientific analysis to raised compete with China and US$52 billion in new subsidies for semiconductor manufacturing and analysis.
The Invoice may also search funding for extra home investments in key know-how areas and supply a greater US different to China's Belt and Highway world infrastructure initiative.
Schumer stated lawmakers would have a look at TikTok and different foreign-based apps whereas writing the China Invoice. TikTok, which is owned by Chinese language tech firm ByteDance, has been a topic of intense scrutiny in Washington and different Western capitals.
TikTok has already been banned from government-issued telephones in nations equivalent to Canada and Australia over issues about whether or not the Chinese language authorities can entry person knowledge or affect what individuals see on the favored app. It additionally faces calls from some US lawmakers to ban the app throughout the nation.
A number of the concepts within the new laws had been a part of a broader China Invoice that was scaled again final yr and finally grew to become the "Chips and Science" act.
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