Tag: U.S. blacklist

China’s Biggest Chipmaker Unable to Acquire Advanced Chipmaking Equipment and Technology

Amid global chip shortages, China’s largest chipmaker—facing a U.S. blacklist—struggles to acquire advanced chipmaking equipment and technology, and to meet the high global demand, it is rapidly expanding existing production lines but cutting its R&D investment and personnel. On Sept. 3, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) announced that Zhou Zixue, the company’s chairman, resigned citing personal…


US Blacklisting of Yemen’s Houthis to Be Lifted on Feb. 16: Blinken

WASHINGTON—U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Friday that he will revoke—effective Feb. 16—designations of Yemen’s Houthi movement as a foreign terrorist organization and a specially designated global terrorist group. The decision, reversing the former Trump administration’s blacklisting of the Houthis, is part of a policy shift by U.S. President Joe Biden aimed at…