In a move that is in part due to political pressure, Apple has paused a plan to use chips from China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) in some of its iPhones.

Taiwanese government officials and representatives of tech companies visited the United States last week to boost bilateral collaboration on 5G, semiconductors, and renewable energy. The Taiwanese government estimated that the trip would generate nearly 1 billion USD worth of R&D investment and new orders for Taiwanese businesses.

At a recent think tank event in Washington DC, experts discussed the economic impact of the China shock, especially on the U.S. economy. While they had differing views on the level of the actual impact, all of them considered that a greater level of some form of government intervention

Three Members of the European Parliament have sent a letter to a French government official to express concern about Strasbourg airport's deal to buy baggage-scanning equipment made by Chinese state-owned company Nuctech.

This past week, CTM covered the following issues. In the United States: * Proposed legislation to enhance ties with Taiwan * White House releases its National Security Strategy * Biden administration ratchets up export controls related to advanced chips and supercomputers * Additional Chinese companies added to U.S. government blacklists * USTR announces next

A U.S. Commerce Department official provided some details on the thought process behind the sweeping export control rules announced last Friday, reiterated the goal of "maintain[ing] as large of a lead as possible" on key technologies over China, and vowed to work with partner countries.

The Biden Administration issued its annual National Security Strategy yesterday, with brief discussions of China as a competitor and U.S. trade policy.