For many Chinese military systems, however, acquiring U.S.-designed, Taiwan-fabricated chips hasn’t been difficult. A recent review of 343 publicly available AI-related People’s Liberation Army procurement contracts, by researchers at Georgetown University, found that less than 20 percent of the contracts involved companies that are subject to U.S. export controls. In other words, the Chinese military has had little difficulty simply buying cutting-edge U.S. chips off-the-shelf and plugging them into military systems.
