Simple Export Controls

DeepSeek’s Success Reveals the Need for Smarter U.S. Export Controls

For any nation to win this innovation race, export controls are absolutely necessary. This is truly one of the easiest controls to implement. All one needs to know is an inventory of the products and resources necessary to produce the technology one seeks to protect and everything that goes into creating it. Starting at the end product and tracing all inputs back to the original source.

Once these have been identified, you control them as you would anything else. You prevent leakage, exfiltration, export, etc. But until you know the necessary inputs that go into creating this technology, efforts will be futile. You need an inventory.