MATCH-Act
6 briefs
The US Is Trying to Cut Off ASML from China While Its President Is in Beijing Asking China for Favors
The MATCH Act gives the Netherlands a 150-day deadline to stop ASML sales to China -- and The Hague is openly refusing, catching Washington in a contradiction it cannot resolve.
The Distillation War: China Is Copying US AI Models at Scale and Washington Doesn't Know What to Do About It
The White House accused China of industrial-scale AI theft through model distillation. The State Department sent a global cable. Congress is advancing the MATCH Act to choke off chip equipment. None of it addresses the core problem, which is that distillation is not crackable by export controls.
Congress Wants to Force US Allies to Choose: Sell Chip Equipment to China, or Sell to America
The MATCH Act passed committee and gives the Netherlands and Japan 150 days to align their export restrictions with US rules or face their own restrictions. The allies have not agreed. The global semiconductor supply chain has not been consulted.
Congress Moves to Ban China From the Factory Floor, Not Just the Chip Aisle
The MATCH Act targets the tools that make chips, not just the chips themselves. That is either a precision strike or a supply chain catastrophe, depending on who you ask.
The MATCH Act Would Let the US Cut Off Allies Who Don't Follow Its Chip Rules
Congress wants to force allies to comply with US semiconductor export controls or face secondary sanctions on any product using American technology. China says it has already adapted.
The Chip War Is Now a Two-Front Battle, and the US Is Losing the Material That Wins It
The MATCH Act would cut China off from Dutch chipmaking tools. China's InP export controls just cut the world off from the material that makes AI data centers run. Washington is winning the equipment war while Beijing controls the supply chain beneath it.