Lawmakers Urge Trump Admin to Exercise Leverage Over China With Chipmaking Equipment Controls

Chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Rep. John Moolenaar speaks during an event in Washington on Feb. 11, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch TimesA bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to work with the Trump administration to limit China’s access to equipment that could enable it to achieve self-sufficiency in advanced chipmaking.The chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) led the group in writing to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick on Feb. 9.