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u. s. department of commerce says the move is intended to limit the spread of technology used to make weapons. it means that chinese and russian companies won't be able to access products, enabling sophisticated image and speech recognition used in warfare. let's talk more about this with d. w. financial correspondent, teddy, also in new york. ted, you good to see, you know, this isn't a bar on all tift, but on certain kinds of processors. what kind of capabilities do they have? are they really used in warfare? yeah, well, these are really high tech ships. typically, they are used for artificial intelligence, as you mentioned, more specifically, machine learning, speeding up those processes, image face recognition. it's used for all kinds of things, and yes, they can be used for military purposes. the united states certainly purchases semiconductor chips for that reason. china does to, the concern here is the ambiguity between the private and state sector in china. there isn't as much of a hard line as there is here in the united states. but really, these specific ships, they're quite new. on

of drones to u. s. law enforcement agencies. they have support from the chinese government. here's our own commerce department saying it has been added to an export blacklist last year after bloomberg reported that it supplied surveillance technology to chinese security forces in xinjiang where millions of muslims have been forced into internment camps. so there's a report that last year that the secret service purchased eight of dj's drones. the fbi purchased 18 of them. so let me just ask you these questions on the record. i'll start with mr. wiegmann. does the fbi currently purchase and use chinese made drones, yes or no? mr. wiegmann: we do. >> does dhs currently purchase and use chinese made drones? ms. vinograd: dhs has prohibited the purchase of foreign made drones, small uas, absent waivers in very specific circumstances. >> okay, so this report that i mentioned said that the secret service had purchased eight of the drones. you're saying that's inaccurate. ms. vinograd: i'm saying that with certain waivers. >> with specific waivers, dhs can purchase -- ms. vinograd: with certain waivers, we are purch