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Beijing has pledged to retaliate against what it calls Taiwan’s “technological blockades,” after the self-governed island blacklisted several Chinese firms, including Huawei Technologies, restricting their access to advanced artificial intelligence development.
“We will take forceful measures to resolutely safeguard the normal order of cross-strait economic and trade exchange,” Taiwan Affairs Office spokeswoman Zhu Fenglian said Wednesday at a regular briefing in Beijing, Bloomberg reported.
Fenglian was responding to a question about Taiwan’s recent curbs on Chinese companies, and didn’t elaborate on how Beijing would respond.
Zhu condemned Taiwan’s decision as “despicable” and claimed it displayed President Lai Ching-te’s loyalty to the US government, the report said.
Taiwan’s Commerce Ministry earlier this month added Chinese chipmakers Huawei Technologies and Semiconductor Manufacturing International to its export control list, as trade and technology frictions between the self-ruled island, China and the United States increase.
Taiwan is home to the world’s largest chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE:TSM), a major supplier for Nvidia (NVDA).
In November last year, the U.S. directed TSMC to stop supplying certain advanced chips to Chinese clients, as part of a wider effort to curb China’s access to leading-edge technologies.