A state’s rules on which chips, tools and even models may be sold abroad, and to whom. Washington’s are published, or disclosed by the company they bind. Beijing’s rare-earth controls of October 2025 are published notices, suspended until 10 November 2026; its proposal of October 2026 would write a large model’s weights into a published list; and its stop on the H200 at its own border reached the record only through sources. Chapter 7.
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- 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.
Where the record uses it
- Person Wang, Dan
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Dryburgh, Lee S. “Export controls.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/export-controls (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-export-controls-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Export controls}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/export-controls},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}