United States export controls push China to develop its own chips, computing hardware and artificial-intelligence systems, accelerating a split of global technology into competing spheres that reshapes supply chains and standards.
weakening · confidence 87 · -9 7d · -10 30d · Long term (3-5+ years) · tracking since July 7, 2026 · updated October 12, 2026
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The FCC will vote on October 29 on a rule, effective December 2028, that would bar all Chinese labs from testing electronics sold in America, which would affect most of the testing now done in China. The split is spreading from chips into certification and standards infrastructure, which pushes the creation of parallel testing ecosystems.
Taiwan's foreign minister Lin Chia-lung opened a government office in Arizona next to TSMC's plant, explicitly to pull more Taiwanese suppliers into a US semiconductor cluster, even as Washington works to steady relations with Beijing. State-level recruitment of the Taiwanese supply base into a US cluster hardens the Western half of the bifurcated stack and gives Beijing a further reason to localise, which is the splitting mechanism in the thesis.
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Supporting · October 10, 2026
US Federal Communications Commission Moves to Bar All Chinese Labs From Testing Electronics Sold in America
The FCC will vote on October 29 on a rule, effective December 2028, that would bar all Chinese labs from testing electronics sold in America, which would affect most of the testing now done in China. The split is spreading from chips into certification and standards infrastructure, which pushes the creation of parallel testing ecosystems.
Global TimesSupporting · October 3, 2026
Taiwan's foreign minister visits Arizona to open an office next to TSMC's chip plant
Taiwan's foreign minister Lin Chia-lung opened a government office in Arizona next to TSMC's plant, explicitly to pull more Taiwanese suppliers into a US semiconductor cluster, even as Washington works to steady relations with Beijing. State-level recruitment of the Taiwanese supply base into a US cluster hardens the Western half of the bifurcated stack and gives Beijing a further reason to localise, which is the splitting mechanism in the thesis.
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