WASHINGTON – US export controls on sending advanced computing chips to China are not meant to hold back the country’s economy or technological development, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during an interview with National Public Radio (NPR) on April 26.

Since 2022, US officials have imposed sweeping controls on which computing chips can be exported to China,cutting off some sales from Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Intel, among others. Those controls followed earlier bans on shipping chips to Huawei Technologies.