US adds Chinese supercomputing companies to export blacklist

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The US has placed Chinese groups accused of building supercomputers to help the Chinese military on an export blacklist, the first such move by the Biden administration to make it harder for China to obtain US technology.

Three companies and four branches of China’s National Supercomputing Center were added to the US government “entity list,” which bars American companies from exporting technology to the groups without a license.

The US commerce department said the groups were involved in building supercomputers used by Chinese “military actors” and facilitating programs to develop weapons of mass destruction.

“Supercomputing capabilities are vital for the development of many—perhaps almost all—modern weapons and national security systems, such as nuclear weapons and hypersonic weapons,” said Gina Raimondo, the US commerce secretary.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/us-adds-chinese-supercomputing-companies-to-export-blacklist/

[hunter]

1. Seems to me that horse as already left the barn.

Cutting edge secrets don't stay secret for long in the modern world.

Stolen Manhattan Project secrets advanced Stalin's atomic bomb program by a year at two or most.

The most difficult hurdle in any cutting edge technology is knowing a thing is possible. After that it's just a matter of finding the intellectual and physical resources to make it so. China has no shortages of either.