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title: "Double blockade: what it means · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/double-blockade
description: "Double blockade: Washington's and Beijing's blocks on the same trade in chips."
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# Double blockade

What does “Double blockade” mean?

Double blockadeWashington’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refuse, by a published rule or on terms disclosed by the company it binds; Beijing’s is a refusal to buy, given as an unpublished word at its border and known only through sources.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.*

From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy)

The book uses this term in a sense of its own.

Defined in [Chapter 7 — The Double Blockade](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-7).

## Where the book uses it

- [Chapter 7 — The Double Blockade](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-7)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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-7)

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*The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. Dryburgh, the first volume of THE COMPUTE ECONOMY, published by Dryburgh, an imprint of Contestra OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia; its record closes on 8 November 2026.

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