2024-09-23 14:42:59
USA continues to escalate its trade war against China. This Monday, the President’s administration Joe Biden has announced an initiative that will ban it vehicles with connection to Internet manufactured in the country are equipped with software designed by the Asian giant, because they fear this will happen Beijing he can use those electronic devices to spy on his rival.
US government officials explained that this measure, proposed by the Department of Commerce, was due to national security concerns. THE digitalisation of cars made it possible to connect to personal devices such as the mobile but also to critical infrastructures such as the electricity grid, which collects large volumes of data of drivers. However, the manufacturers of the vehicles or their components may also have access to such personal information.
“For this reason, connected vehicles and technology they use pose new vulnerabilities and threats, especially in the case of vehicles or components developed in the People’s Republic of China and other countries of interest,” Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security advisor, warned on Sunday. prohibition it will become a permanent rule before next January 20, when the Democratic president leaves office.
Trade war
With this block, the White House takes another step forward in its trade fight with China. In early July, the Biden administration announced the imposition of 100% tariffs. electric vehicles Chinese, heavily subsidized by Beijing, to prevent them from penetrating the US market by conquering national producers.
In recent months the democratic government has adopted other draconian measures that follow the same logic, from the ban on the use of the Chinese giant’s telecommunications equipment Huawei press TikTok sell its U.S. assets or face a freeze, an initiative that had bipartisan support in Congress.
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