According to Reuters, these decisions have not been announced before and are aimed at limiting actions of the US government that could alienate China following the conclusion of a trade truce between Washington and Beijing in October.
China then pledged to delay painful export restrictions on rare earth metals, which underpin global technology production.
Donald Trump is preparing the ground before his meeting with Xi Jinping
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All the measures the U.S. administration suspended were initially aimed at preventing Beijing from accessing confidential U.S. data and using it for blackmail or intellectual property theft, as well as preventing it from sabotaging critical infrastructure, Reuters found.
Some critics say the Trump administration's actions expose U.S. data centers and other technologies to threats from China.
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The US suspends restrictions on China. “Irony”
“At a time when we are desperately trying to shake off Beijing's influence over rare earth supply chains, The irony is that we are allowing Beijing to gain new areas of influence over the US economy – in telecommunications infrastructure, data centers, artificial intelligence and electric vehicles” said Matt Pottinger, who served as deputy national security adviser in Trump's first term.
What changes is the Trump administration holding back? As Reuters found, it is a ban on activities China Telecom in the USA and limitations sales of Chinese equipment to US data centers.
The United States also halted proposed bans on the sale of the company's routers in the country TP-Link and American Internet business China Unicom and ChinaMobileas well as a sale block Chinese electric trucks and buses in the USA.
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TP-Link Systems Inc., a California-based company that spun off from the Chinese company in 2024, emphasized that it is an independent U.S. company, “with U.S.-managed software, U.S.-hosted data, and security practices consistent with U.S. industry standards.”
“Any suggestion that we are subject to foreign control or pose a threat to national security is categorically false,” she added.
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Is the US building strategic gaps? “Remote Controlled Islands”
David Feith, who served in the first and second Trump administrations, described China-linked data center equipment as a growing national security threat and called for action to address it.
US data centers could become “remote-controlled islands of Chinese digital sovereignty” as the United States quietly builds “strategic vulnerabilities in our artificial intelligence and energy system,” he said.
Source: Reuters
