Donald Trump’s administration is sketching out tougher versions of US semiconductor curbs and pressuring key allies to escalate their restrictions on China’s chip industry, an early indication the new US president plans to expand efforts that began under Joe Biden to limit Beijing’s technological prowess.

Oliver McPherson-Smith has called for unlocking domestic energy production and scouring tax incentives to ensure China isn’t benefiting.

The Trump administration is planning to toughen semiconductor restrictions on China, continuing and expanding the Biden administration's efforts to limit Beijing's technological prowess, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.

The U.S. plan of coercing other countries into going after China's semiconductor industry will backfire, China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

The United States has repeatedly tightened control over chip export to China and coerced other countries to go after China's semiconductor industry, which not only hinders the development of the global semiconductor industry,