Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 13. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce said on the 13th that China has noticed that the Biden administration issued export control measures related to artificial intelligence on January 13. This measure further strengthens export controls on artificial intelligence chips, model parameters, etc., and also expands long-arm jurisdiction, setting up obstacles and interfering with the normal trade between third parties and China. Previously, American high-tech enterprises, industry organizations, etc. expressed dissatisfaction and concerns through various channels, believing that the measures were not fully discussed and implemented hasty, which is an excessive regulation of the field of artificial intelligence and will have major adverse consequences. They strongly called on the Biden administration to stop introducing them. However, the Biden administration turned a deaf ear to the industry's reasonable voices and insisted on hasty introduction of measures, which is another example of generalizing national security concepts and abusing export controls, and a blatant violation of international multilateral economic and trade rules. China firmly opposes this.
The spokesperson said that the Biden administration's abuse of export control measures has seriously hindered normal economic and trade exchanges among countries, seriously damaged market rules and international economic and trade order, seriously affected global scientific and technological innovation, and seriously damaged the interests of enterprises from all over the world, including American companies. China will take necessary measures to resolutely safeguard its legitimate rights and interests.
