USA restricts access to its technology to adversary regimes, including Cuba

An executive order signed on Friday by the US President Donald Trump will restrict access to American technology of foreign adversaries, including Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Russia and China.

The measure seeks to restrict the access of these regimes to talent and American operations in sensitive technologies, especially artificial intelligence, says a presidential memorandum Published Friday for the White House.

The text includes in the list of “foreign adversaries” to the People’s Republic of China, including Hong Kong and Macao; Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia and the «regime of the Venezuelan politician Nicolás Maduro».

The order does not detail how this measure will be implemented.

«The United States policy is to preserve an open investment environment to help ensure that artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies of the future are built, create and grow right here in the United States,» says the memorandum, entitled «Investment Policy America first. «

The presidential action indicates that «investment at all costs» does not always result in the benefit of national interest.

«Certain foreign adversaries, including the People’s Republic of China, systematically direct and facilitate investment in US companies and assets to obtain avant -garde technologies, intellectual property and leverage in strategic industries. The People’s Republic of China applies these strategies in various ways, both visible and Ucubierto, already often through associated companies or investment funds in third countries, «says the text.

President Trump argued that «economic security is national security,» and recalled that China does not allow US companies to take over their critical infrastructure, so the United States should not allow China to take over its own.

The presidential order indicates that China «is increasingly exploiting US capital to develop and modernize its military, intelligence and other security devices,» which raises a significant risk for the United States.

American experts have warned about the growing presence of China in Cuba and the development of facilities that They could be used to compile intelligence signals (Sigint) over the United States.

Questioned the issue, the then US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, commented in July 2024: “When this administration assumed the position in January 2021, we were informed of a series of Beijing’s delicate initiatives worldwide to expand its Logistics abroad (…). According to the information we have, the China People’s Republic modernized its intelligence collection facilities in Cuba in 2019 «.