{"id":337066,"date":"2025-08-12T00:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337066\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T00:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:25:17","slug":"chip-deal-why-the-us-is-taking-a-cut-from-china-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337066\/","title":{"rendered":"Chip deal: Why the US is taking a cut from China sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The agreement is something of a win for China because it does want these chips. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Analysts say leading tech companies including ByteDance, Tencent and DeepSeek bought H20s before the US cut off access in April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And it is a win for the US government, with analysts Bernstein Research telling the BBC it could make up to $2bn from chip sales to China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There could be a further victory for Washington, if this leads to a deal on rare-earth elements with Beijing, which currently has a monopoly over the critical minerals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But critics of the deal say they are alarmed about how this reflects on the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This &#8220;is a very different US environment from the one that we&#8217;ve had in the past,&#8221; says Ms Elms, the trade expert.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I suppose, generously, you could call it the flexibility of the Trump White House in responding to requests.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The agreement is something of a win for China because it does want these chips. Analysts say leading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-337066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115012955559657128","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}