Why the US cut China off from advanced chips
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Advanced semiconductor chips power the kind of artificial intelligence used in supercomputers, self-driving cars and the military. The United States has been and remains the epicenter of microchip innovation, though the Chinese government has high ambitions for its country to take the number one spot.
On October 7, though, just a couple of weeks before Xi Jinping is expected to be reappointed as China's leader, the US government announced a broad ban blocking China's access to make or buy advanced semiconductor chips.
Today on the show, how we got to this colossal shift in technology trade between the US and China.
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