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"Technology is changing faster than ever, which means we have to wake up every day and ask ourselves, 'are we doing enough?' My job is to protect the American people and to make sure there are no sophisticated technology that we have, that China doesn't have, that they can't access it and use it to enable the Chinese military," Raimondo said.
China's State Administration of Market Regulation (SAMR) has not signed off on the deal and is likely to delay its decision, it was reported earlier this month, after US President Joe Biden's administration introduced tougher chip controls.
Japan and the Netherlands will soon agree to join the United States in restricting exports of semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China, Bloomberg News reported.