Washington’s and Beijing’s blocks on the same trade in chips. Washington’s is a license it may refuse, by a published rule or on terms disclosed by the company it binds; Beijing’s is a refusal to buy, given as an unpublished word at its border and known only through sources. Chapter 7.
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The book uses this term in a sense of its own.
Defined in Chapter 7 — The Double Blockade.
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 7 — The Double Blockade
Two governments deciding one trade: Washington’s export rules and Beijing’s instructions at the border, and what each did to the chip business it meant to shape.
Also discussed in
- Chapter notes Chapter 7 — The Double Blockade
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Double blockade.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/double-blockade (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-double-blockade-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Double blockade}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/double-blockade},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}