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FrontRow · Nov 12, 2026

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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is urging the Trump administration to take a harsher stance towards Chinese memory maker ChangXin Memory Technologies. "CXMT, one of Communist China's national memory chip champions, poses a growing risk to our economic prosperity and military superiority," Cotton wrote in a letter sent Thursday to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. "The U.S. must take action to prevent CXMT from gaining a stronger foothold in the global market." CXMT is the world's fourth-largest producer of DRAM – or dynamic random access memory – which powers many basic functions of computers and smartphones. Cotton, in a letter first obtained by CNBC, is asking Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to push CXMT onto the department's Bureau of Industry and Security Entity List, which would significantly restrict U.S. firms' ability to do business with the company.

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is urging the Trump administration to take a harsher stance towards Chinese memory maker ChangXin Memory Technologies. "CXMT, one of Communist China's national memory chip champions, poses a growing risk to our economic prosperity and military superiority," Cotton wrote in a letter sent Thursday to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. "The U.S. must take action to prevent CXMT from gaining a stronger foothold in the global market." CXMT is the world's fourth-largest producer of DRAM – or dynamic random access memory – which powers many basic functions of computers and smartphones. Cotton, in a letter first obtained by CNBC, is asking Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to push CXMT onto the department's Bureau of Industry and Security Entity List, which would significantly restrict U.S. firms' ability to do business with the company.

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