China said on Tuesday that the Trump administration was investigating a new tariff on Beijing and investigating Google for potential anti -trade violations.
The Chinese state market regulation announced in a press release that it was investigating high -tech giants on suspicions of violating the country's anti -giant law.
The survey is the latest clear retaliation for President Trump's 10 % tariff on China. In addition to Beijing, the President imposed a 25 % tariff on Canada and Mexico on the weekend, but the two countries have reached a 30 -day suspension.
China responded on Monday, with a 15 % tariff on liquefied natural gas and coal, crude oil, pickup trucks, agricultural machinery, and 10 % of the large vehicles.
It has also announced plans to impose export management to several important factors, such as Tellurium, Bismuth, Tungsten, Indium, and Molybdenum.
“The unilateral imposition of US tariffs is seriously violating the rules of the World Trade Organization,” said the Council of the Council of China. “It is useless to solve its own problems, but also impairs normal economic cooperation between China and the United States.”
The high -tech industry can be an important factor in the US -China trade war. The United States had already arranged strict export management on advanced chips under the Biden administration to inhibit Beijing's artificial intelligence (AI) development.
The recent appearance of China's AI Startup Deepseek is questioning the effectiveness of exports to the development of AI and the effectiveness of American companies.
Deepseek claimed that the new R1 model could function equally as Openai, and was developed with only a $ 1000 decreased capacity chips in the final price tag of $ 5.6 million.
This was threatened to reverses the current consensus on AI development. As a result, it is assumed that the new model needs a huge amount of investment in AI infrastructure. American AI companies such as Openai, Meta, and Microsoft have committed billions of dollars to secure chips and build data centers.
Last week, after Deepseek rose to the top of the Apple App Store, investors fell into a panic, causing a significant sale of high -teches where chip manufacturers had lost $ 600 billion a day.
However, some people are questioning DeepSeek's claims about the R1 model, such as the total cost of training and whether the more advanced chips have been used. According to Bloomberg, US officials are investigating whether Deep Shake had acquired advanced chips via Singapore to avoid US export management.
