The Financial Times is gated, but in brief:

  • Trump administration plans to put a number of Chinese chipmaking companies on an export blacklist (the “entity list”)
  • timing of the move has been complicated by the trade deal agreed by China and the US in Geneva at the weekend
  • some Trump administration officials have argued that putting export controls on critical Chinese groups now could jeopardise the trade negotiations
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Source: Forex Live