By Jeremy Hsu4 Aug 2015 13:00 GMTChina Tightens Control on Exports of Supercomputers, Drones

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China has begun puttingnew limits on the overseas sales of itsmost powerful supercomputers and drones. The move to limit some of the more advanced Chinese technologiesechoes U.S. restrictions on similartechnology exports.

Chinese companies seeking to export certain advanced supercomputers or drones will need to apply for export licenses, according to a 31 Julyannouncement byChina’s Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs. For supercomputers, that means anything more powerful than 8 teraflops (8 trillion floating-point operations per second), The Wall Street Journalreports. China currently has the world’s most powerful supercomputer, called Tianhe-2, at 33 petaflops (33 quadrillionfloating-point operations per second.)

The new Chinese rules likely represent an effort to play up China’s technology strengths, saidAndrei Chang, the Hong Kong-based editor of Kanwa Defense, an online publication about military affairs, in aWall Street Journal interview. But they may also represent a reaction to the U.S. government blacklisting several Chinese supercomputing centers associated with Tianhe-2 because of concerns about their involvement in nuclear weapons development.

Both China and the U.S. are leaders in building ever-faster supercomputers. But the U.S. currently lags behind China and Japan in terms of plans to buildthe first exascale supercomputers. The two Asian nations hope to get there by 2020. On 29 July, President Obama signed an executive order focused on high-performance computing that included the goal of speeding up delivery of the first U.S. exascale supercomputer, which experts don’t expect until 2023.

The new Chinese export license restrictions also cover homegrown drones that can fly for more than an hour, along with drones that can stabilize themselves in the midst ofstrong winds and fly for more than half an hour.That probably won’t affect the business oftheChinese company DJI, which produces the popular Phantom line of commercial drones andcurrently ranks as the world’s largest commercial drone manufacturer. But it could potentially limit future exports as off-the-shelf drones become more powerful.

中國加強控制無人機和超級計算機的出口

杰瑞米hsu4月2015日13:00 gmtchina收緊控制出口的超級計算機，drones

中國已經開始把對其海外銷售的新限制；最強大的超級計算機和無人機。此舉限制一些更先進的中國技術；呼應美國限制類似；技術出口。

中國企業尋求出口某些先進的超級計算機或機器人將需要申請出口許可證，根據七月31 ；中國的公告；&rsquo；商務部和海關總署。超級計算機，這意味著超過8萬億次浮點運算更強大的東西（8兆次浮點運算每秒），華爾街日報報道。中國目前擁有世界上最強大的超級計算機，；叫天河2號，在33千萬億次（33萬億；浮點運算每秒。）

中國新規則可能代表了一種努力發揮中國&rsquo；的技術優勢，說；安德列昌，基于香港漢和防務主編，軍事在線出版物，在；華爾街日報采訪。但他們也可能代表了美國政府的黑名單幾個中國超級計算機中心與天河2號因為他們發展核武器的擔憂中參與反應。

中國和美國的領導人在建設更快的超級計算機。但美國目前落后于中國和日本方面計劃建立；第一億億級超級計算機。這兩家亞洲國家希望在那里得到2020。29七月，奧巴馬總統簽署了一項行政命令，專注于高性能計算，包括加快美國第一億億級超級計算機交付的目標，專家不；沒想到直到2023。

中國新的出口許可證限制還包括國產飛機能飛一個多小時，隨著無人機能穩定自己在中間；大風飛了半個多小時，；這可能會影響；；企業；中國企業DJI，產生商業無人機的流行的幻影線；目前是世界上最大的商業飛機制造商。但它可能會限制未來的出口，因為現成的無人駕駛飛機變得更加強大。