China’s Semiconductor Conundrum: Understanding U.S. Export Controls and Their Efficacy

2025-09-01 - 2025-11-01

Megha Srivastava

Online

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📌Date and Time: September 8, 2025, 14:00–15:30 Taipei Time (GMT+8); 11:30–13:00 India Standard Time (GMT+5:30)

📌Format: Online

📌Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83188972256?pwd=AK1Lv61lU7fb6ioLAjWJeJ6rkqb4rs.1

📌Forum Language: English

 

📌Synopsis
This workshop discusses how geopolitical and geoeconomic statecraft have altered the industrial policy dynamics in the context of the US-China tech fight. Situating its analysis in the semiconductor industry, the discussion examines two key dimensions: the evolution of the US-China policy from the Trump administration to the Biden administration and the efficacy of the export control measures taken by the US. Discussion will also focus on the evolving features and responses of the US and China in great power rivalry from three perspectives: analyses how the characteristics of hegemonic competition between the US and China have evolved in response to their economic and military dependence on Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. Second, the discussion will review the state of China’s semiconductor industry and analyses how American export control policies tend to reshape China’s chip industry. Third, it discusses the efficacy of US sanctions on China. The discussion will identify four ways in which Chinese chipmakers have been able to bypass US sanctions. The discussion aims to reflects a major structural flaw in the conventional geoeconomic strategy of export controls as global supply chain no longer seems to be controllable by US-led policies. It also discusses a strategic realignment with deeper implications for global power.

 

📌Moderator

💭Joyce C.H. Liu

Professor Emeritus, Specially Appointed Professor, International Program in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, NYCU, Taiwan
 

📌Speakers:

💭Megha Srivastava

MoFA Taiwan Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Institute of National Defense and Security Research, Taipei, Taiwan.

 

 

📌Organizer

International Center for Cultural Studies (ICCS), National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University

• Subproject II: The Chip Era and Digital Governance (Principal Investigator: Joyce C.H. Liu)

 

📌Funding Source

Higher Education Sprout Project, Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan