"I think to make the case that this is about national security is getting harder and harder" said Christophe Fouquet

China was the only country to increase its year-on-year chip equipment purchases, with other major buyers like Taiwan, South Korea and the US all spending less

China has emerged as a significant buyer of ASML’s products — accounting for nearly half of its sales — in the first quarter of the year

The patents represent a small fraction of China's global patents, but could jeopardise the renewal of a 45-year-old science and technology pact between Beijing and Washington

The detention of Indian solar panels represents a new focus for the CBP, given the agency has largely focused on Chinese suppliers so far

Prices of gallium and germanium have nearly doubled in the months since China tamped down their exports

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said China was 'not playing by the same rules' as the rest of the world. He is also considering similar levies on imports of chips and solar cells

American firms producing electric vehicles to electric utility equipment largely want higher China tariffs to be reduced, delayed or abandoned altogether

China has criticised a reported secret strategic plan that concentrated on what the US said was its quickly growing nuclear arsenal

The claim comes at a time when China is in the midst of a tense tech and trade war with the West, with both sides lobbing spying accusations at each other

The agreement was one of the first to be signed after the US formally recognised the People’s Republic of China in 1979

Current unilateral curbs were benefitting foreign rivals at the expense of US businesses, California Democrats said in a letter this week