The Financial Times is gated, but in brief:
- Trump administration plans to put a number of Chinese chipmaking companies on an export blacklist (the “entity list”)
- timing of the move has been complicated by the trade deal agreed by China and the US in Geneva at the weekend
- some Trump administration officials have argued that putting export controls on critical Chinese groups now could jeopardise the trade negotiations
This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.