US's Huawei ban highlights growing network of tech export controls

Sales of everything from 3D printing to AI are now subject to tight rules

The day before the U.S. was due to announce whether it would extend a licence for companies to work with Chinese telecoms business Huawei, President Donald Trump made his feelings clear: "Huawei is a company we may not do business with at all," he said Sunday night.

Trump has flip-flopped on Huawei several times, going from conciliatory to furious and back again, but these moves have had little or no impact on the trajectory of an intensifying U.S.-China technology rivalry.

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