The United States continues to escalate its chip war against China, and U.S. President Joe Biden announced on May 14 that tariffs will be imposed on a number of Chinese products, including China's chip products. The chip war launched by the United States against China is not only promoted through tariff leverage, but also prohibits the export of chip manufacturing equipment and technology to China, and even requires equipment suppliers to prohibit the maintenance and improvement of related equipment, highlighting that the United States is using a strategy of "drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle" to try to stop China's chip industry. According to foreign media reports, EU officials have publicly stated that they will investigate China's traditional chip industry.
In fact, before EU officials made threats, US officials had already made a briefing when they attended the meeting in Europe, declaring that they could not rely on China's traditional chip industry. The United States has passed the "Chips and Science Act" before, and there is a definition of chips, the so-called traditional chips are chips made by the 28nm process, and 28nm is not difficult for China, so now the EU has closely followed the strategy of the United States and tried to do it for China in the field of traditional chips. The EU's argument is that it cannot rely on China's traditional chip industry, so it needs to investigate related industries and products, and EU officials have announced that the results of the investigation will be released in the near future to provide a reference for subsequent decision-making.
The United States began the chip war against China in 2019, and now the United States has expanded the scope of the chip war from high-end chips to the traditional low-end chip field, just like the United States hyped the so-called "China's overcapacity", and now the United States has adopted the same "rhetoric" in the field of chips. The United States has adopted a "step-by-step" strategy to promote the chip war, and when actively promoting the establishment of chip factories in the United States, the United States has begun to work in the field of traditional chips, and wants to pull the European Union to jointly deal with China.
The use of traditional chips is very wide, cars use a large number of traditional chips, the rest of the home appliances also use traditional chips, and mobile phones and computers use high-end chip products. Because the EU has a strong manufacturing industry, for which a large number of low-end chip products need to be purchased, driven by the United States, the EU has taken action, highlighting the situation that the EU does not have independent sovereignty, and now the EU is taking action, in fact, it is a replication of the United States' strategy, so as to further encircle China's chip industry. Originally, the EU was an economy that could compete with the United States, but now the EU has become a tool for the United States to promote hegemony, so it is a great sadness.
Although the United States denies "decoupling" from China, the United States has cut off China in many fields, the most prominent is in the field of chips, the United States has tried to prevent the development and breakthrough of China's chip industry through a variety of ways, including the promotion of Chinese chips in the global market. The Biden administration in the United States has formed the so-called chip alliance, and has joined forces with Japan, South Korea, and the Netherlands to prevent China from obtaining equipment and consumables for chip manufacturing. Now the EU is also ready to move, and it is necessary to be vigilant about this.