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A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep on a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand it.***Last week, the United States announced new limits on the kinds of chips American companies will be able to sell to China. Now, these companies will be unable to sell the chips necessary for the development of AI systems to China, in addition to limits already introduced in October 2022. These regulations will affect a range of industries but are most acutely targeted at limiting China’s ability to build advanced weapons systems.We asked four experts to tell us more about these new limitations, how they could affect China, and how Beijing might respond. Read more below. Emily Kilcrease Senior Fellow & Director of the Energy, Economics, and Security Program, Center for a New American SecurityLast year’s export controls were a landmark event, seeking to freeze China’s advances in chips, AI, and supercomputing. The recently released updates confirm this policy, while reflecting concern about observed circumvention routes, including transshipment as well as chips designed for China under the control parameters. More positively, the United States aligned tooling controls with the Dutch and Japanese and authorized certain shipments for South Korean producers, reflecting greater alignment with key allies than was evident a year ago. Now, the United States must focus on continual updating and enforcement, while also keeping a wary eye on China’s growing role in legacy chip production. China has already taken one retaliatory step by issuing new export controls on graphite over the weekend, but its long-term play is to develop its own self-sufficient chips ecosystem. Chris Miller Author, Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical TechnologyThe updated controls