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Biden signs executive order to regulate investment in sensitive technology

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Initiative aims to regulate investments in Chinese companies and entities in technology and product areas that could give China military and intelligence advantages.

US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order prohibiting some new US investment to certain countries in sensitive technologies like computer chips. It also requires the government to be notified about investment in some other tech sectors.

The order lays out plans to regulate investments in certain “countries of

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