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Republican senator urges ban on Chinese chipmaker CXMT from US market

Reuters
Republican senator urges ban on Chinese chipmaker CXMT from US market

WASHINGTON, Nov ‌12 (Reuters) - The Republican chair ​of ‌the Senate Intelligence ‌Committee urged US Commerce Secretary ‌Howard Lutnick to bar Chinese memory chip producer ⁠CXMT from ‌the US market ⁠and deny it ​access to American technologies.

Senator Tom ​Cotton said ​in ‌a letter Thursday ​that CXMT "poses ⁠a growing ‌risk to ​our ​economic prosperity and military superiority. The US must take ‌action to prevent CXMT ‌from gaining ​a stronger foothold in the global market."

(Reporting ‌by David Shepardson)