China targets Google, Nvidia and Intel as Trump tariffs bite

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China has recovered disbelief in Google and Nvidia, while considering a new investigation against Intel, since Beijing is looking for leverage in talks with US President Donald Trump.

China’s state administration for market control Declaration On Tuesday, Google launched a competition investigation, which two people familiar with the subject say that the US group’s Android operating system dominates and any damage to Chinese phonemakers like Oppo and Shaomi, which uses the software.

Chinese regulators, who announced a similar investigation into Nvidia in December, were now looking at Intel’s official investigation, saying two people known about the situation.

However, the nature of the US Chipmaker investigation remains unclear, a guy said that it was officially launched could be influenced by the state by adding US-China relationshipThe President Xi Jinping is expected to talk to Trump in the coming days.

The technology investigations are made by China in response to the “reactionary system”, as in response to Trump’s new tariff Against the country, Liu Ju, a researcher at the National Strategy Institute of Singua University.

Ju has added that using unbelievers as a trade discussion tool may not be the best way to protect Chinese companies affected by the US duty. “This will inevitably arise,” he said.

Beijing’s scams come to make suit against prominent US technology companies because they have been caught in the growing crossfire Tension Between two global energy.

According to the two known on the Google probe, which the controllers first started in 2019, were shelved for years, but re -opened in December. The move came just before Trump was sworn in as the US president, who campaigned on the election by promising to impose steep tariffs against Chinese products.

Due to the new emergency to launch the investigation, Summer regulators went to the Beijing office of Google before coming to Trump’s office in January and demanded to transfer information related to the people.

The outgoing biden administration also used China’s growing AI capacity to increase export control to advanced chips in advanced chips.

During this time, Summer announced in December that it was investigating claims to violate the promise made during the acquisition of Melanox Technologies in 2019, 2019, which produces computer networking equipment.

According to a person known about the matter, the CMR approved the acquisition in 2020 to prevent anti-anti-empire practices and to ensure supply to China and soon began to collect allegations from the industry soon.

The investigation was surprised NvidiaAdvanced AI semiconductor is the largest maker in the world.

A few days before the announcement of the SAMR, Nvidia officials met with the officials of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, according to the knowledge of the meeting with the officials to discuss the 2.5TN chipmeaker operation in the United States.

One of these people said that trade officials suggested: “Nvidia is welcome to continue its business in China.” According to the company’s filing, the country represented 5 percent of its global sales during the first three-quarters of 2021.

Intelligence investigations in large US technology companies can lose access to the company’s global revenue or one of their largest international markets to lose access to certain markets.

China is the largest market in Intel worldwide, beyond the United States. California -based chipmeaker has recorded $ 15.5 billion sales in the country 2024According to the company’s filing, accounting for 29 percent of its global income.

Although the Google search engine is blocked in China, most of its main companies are in addition to the alphabet business, the US company gains advertising from advertising from abroad. Chinese phonemakers mostly use its Android operating system.

The alphabet does not break its revenue from China, but the Asia-Pacific region contributed to 5 percent of sales in 2021.

Google and Nvidia refused to comment. Intel did not immediately respond to the requests for the comment. Beijing-based mofcom and summer did not answer the faxed questions to comment outside of work time.

Additional Report from Wengzie Dings in Beijing