US-China Relations Updates

In 2018, China listed 35 major projects that were “choking” the country’s development due to Western restrictions. The projects were:

1)  Lithography Machines,

2) Chips,

3) Operating Systems,

4) Short-haul Aircraft Engines,

5) Tactile Sensors,

6) Vacuum Deposition Machines,

7) Mobile Phone Radio Frequency Devices,

8) iCLIP technology,

9) Heavy-Duty Gas Turbines,

10) Laser Radar,

11) Airworthiness Starndards,

12) High-End Capacitors And Resistors,

13) Core Industrial Software,

14) ITO targets,

15) Core Algorithms,

16) Aviation Steel,

17) Milling Cutters,

18) High-End Bearing Steel,

19) High-Pressure Plunger Pumps,

20) Aviation Design Software,

21) Lithography Resists,

22) High-Pressure Common Rail Systems,

23) Transmission electron microscopes,

24) Main Bearings for Tunnel Boring Machines

25) Microspheres,

26) Underwater Connectors,

27) Key Materials for Fuel Cells,

28) High-end Welding Power Sources,

29) Lithium Battery Separators,

30) Medical Imaging Equipment Components,

31) Ultra-Precision Polishing Technology,

32) Epoxy Resins,

33) High-Strength Stainless Steel,

34) Database Management systems, and

35) Scanning Electron Microscopes.

After five years, 14 of the 35 “choking” projects remain: 1), 4), 8), 11), 12), 13), 15), 17), 20), 21), 23), 30), 32), and 33).