Microsoft will expel 800 of its employees from China, America’s announcement took the company into action

Microsoft has come into action mode amidst America’s ongoing crackdown on China. The company has started planning to shift the employees working in China to another country. The Wall Street Journal reported in a report that Microsoft is asking it to consider sending about 700 to 800 people out of the country in its China-based cloud-computing and artificial-intelligence operations. Citing people familiar with the matter, the report said the employees, mostly engineers with Chinese citizenship, are being given the option to travel to countries including the US, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand as early as the week.

The company issued a statement

A Microsoft spokesperson said in a media interaction that providing internal opportunities to employees is part of their global business. Reuters reported earlier this month that the US Commerce Department is considering a new regulatory move to ban the export of proprietary or closed-source AI models whose software and the data on which they are trained are classified as secret. Is kept. However, the spokesperson told the newspaper that the company is committed to this and will continue to work in China.

America had announced this

Let us tell you that this step has come amid growing US-China relations, as the Biden administration is cracking down on various areas of Chinese imports including electric vehicle (EV) batteries, computer chips and medical. America has imposed 100% duty on Chinese electric vehicles. , 50% duty has been imposed on semiconductor and 25% duty on electric vehicle batteries. After this step of Joe Biden, the world is once again facing the threat of a new US-China trade war. When Donald Trump was in power in America, the world faced a trade war between the two. It was the result of the trade war that the condition of TikTok in America had worsened. However, later after the change of government, the situation there started improving.