Marco Rubio Calls on Biden Administration to Blacklist Chinese Chip Design Firm Brite

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has urged the Department of Commerce (DOC) to blacklist a Chinese chip design firm and impose further restrictions on Chinese tech companies as they allegedly bypass U.S. export-control measures to help U.S.-sanctioned China entities. In a letter dated Dec. 20 to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Mr. Rubio raised concerns that Chinese company Brite Semiconductor has used American technology and funds to provide chip design services to Chinese military companies. “That Brite and other Chinese technology companies have relatively free access to American technology shows yet again that your export-control scheme is allowing China’s rise as a technological power,” Mr. Rubio noted. “It is not enough to prevent China from attaining theoretical capabilities in the future if it means ignoring the lucrative and militarily significant transfer of technology that goes on between American and Chinese firms today.”...