Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says Donald Trump is a president-elect who for all of his aggressive talk is afraid to let America compete with the rest of the world, responding instead with tariffs and curtailing immigration.

"Marketplace" host Kai Ryssdal does an "exit interview" with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. They talk AI, tariffs and more.

In an apparent move to dictate to its successor how to handle China relations, the Joe Biden administration has markedly intensified its China-targeted measures during its last week in office.

As part of a crackdown on vehicle software and hardware from China, the Biden Administration has finalized its rules for banning Chinese EVs in the US market.

President Joe Biden's outgoing administration plans to finalize rules next week cracking down on Chinese vehicle software and hardware, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told Reuters.

The U.S. is imposing some of its strongest measures yet to limit Chinese advances in AI, aiming to block backdoors in other countries that Beijing could use to access technology.

In a conversation about its Chinese competitors with the host of the Fully Charged Podcast, Robert Llewellyn, he admitted that his daily driver was a car made by one of Ford's Chinese competitors: an EV by consumer electronics giant Xiaomi called the SU7.

New AI tech regulations are designed to enhance national security, but have been branded as a competition stifling measure to keep the US ahead.

Beijing on Wednesday said it "firmly opposes" a US move to effectively bar Chinese technology from smart cars in the American market, saying alleged risks to national security were "without any factual basis".

The Biden administration has issued new restrictions on the export of US-developed computer chips that power artificial intelligence (AI) systems, in a final effort to prevent rivals like China from accessing the advanced technology,

Though the rules are aimed at China, they could impact some European countries including Portugal and Switzerland. View on euronews

The United States is going to ban Russian and Chinese software in vehicles, according to the Department of Commerce, due to national security concerns.