'An Act of War': Inside America's Silicon Blockade Against China

Jul 12, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    6% Center

  • Reliability

    80% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    28% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

Sentiments

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"Even allowing that enforcement need not be perfect, I wondered whether this was a fair fight -- the Bureau of Industry and Security versus the full weight of the Chinese government."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"Though the listing was ostensibly punishment for a criminal violation -- Huawei had been caught selling sanctioned materials to Iran -- the strategic benefits became immediately obvious."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"Chris Miller, author of the book Chip War and an associate professor of international history at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, likes to note that if airplanes had improved at the same rate as chips, they'd now be flying at several times the speed of light."
Positive
14% Conservative
"But in late January, the Biden administration reached an agreement with Japan and the Netherlands, under which they would implement similar controls on semiconductors or semiconductor-manufacturing equipment."
Positive
10% Conservative
"The entire industry can only function with U.S. inputs, Miller says."
Positive
8% Conservative
"America fully grasped its power over the global semiconductor market in 2019, when the Trump administration added Huawei, a major Chinese telecommunications maker, to the entity list."
Positive
8% Conservative
"The Biden administration is going after industries."
Positive
0% Conservative
"The Trump administration went after companies, says Allen, the CSIS expert."
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-2% Liberal
"It's hard to imagine how the capabilities they've reached would be possible without access to the smartest minds in the world all working together, Miller says."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"And yet it is this same intercoectedness that makes the industry vulnerable to regulations like those the Biden administration is pursuing."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"By squeezing on the industry's natural choke points, the Biden administration aims to block China from the future of chip technology."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Those are large buildings, and they don't move, Miller says."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"In May 2020, the Trump administration tightened the screws further, this time by making Huawei subject to a formerly obscure provision of export-control law called the foreign direct product rule."
Negative
-26% Liberal

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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Even allowing that enforcement need not be perfect, I wondered whether this was a fair fight -- the Bureau of Industry and Security versus the full weight of the Chinese government.
41% : Though the listing was ostensibly punishment for a criminal violation -- Huawei had been caught selling sanctioned materials to Iran -- the strategic benefits became immediately obvious.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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