U.S. regulators made Huawei's chip 'breakthrough' possible

SMIC exploited loose licensing and poor standards but still faces limits

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A Huawei Mate 60 Pro smartphone at the company's flagship store in Beijing on Sept. 25: At the core of the handset are 7-nm microchips made by SMIC. © Reuters

Douglas Fuller is an associate professor of international economics, government and business at Copenhagen Business School and the author of "Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China's Technological Development."

Last month, Chinese state media proclaimed that the microchips at the core of Huawei Technologies' flashy new flagship Mate 60 Pro smartphone showed how Chinese companies were ingeniously breaking through America's blockade on advanced chipmaking technologies.

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