HILL TECH BRIEF: GOP Ramp Calls for China Micron Ban Retaliation – Bloomberg Law

Beijing’s ban of US chipmaker Micron continues to attract ire and calls for retaliation from Washington.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), chair of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, asked Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to counter China’s ban by sanctioning Chinese semiconductor company ChangXin Memory.

“The US government can no longer sit on the sidelines as the PRC selectively targets US and allied entities with the goal of intimidating our businesses and harming our economic security,” the two lawmakers wrote in a letter seeking a response from Raimondo by June 15. …