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

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The relaxing of a tech ban on Huawei does nothing to extract global companies from a much more pervasive web of export controls. © VCG/Getty Images

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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