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8. This is selling US national security, according to the Trump regime's own argument

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Aug 11, 2025, 03:53 AM

Aug 11

The US had previously banned the sale of powerful chips used in areas like artificial intelligence (AI) to China under export controls usually related to national security concerns.

Security experts, including some who served during President Donald Trump's first term, recently wrote to the administration expressing "deep concern", external that Nvidia's H20 chip was "a potent accelerator" of China's AI capabilities.
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"You either have a national security problem or you don't," said Deborah Elms, head of trade policy at the Hinrich Foundation.

"If you have a 15% payment, it doesn't somehow eliminate the national security issue," she added.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgvvnx8y19o

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Nvidia, AMD to Pay US 15% of China AI Chip Sales in Unusual Move [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Aug 10 OP

I'd like to see the bank transfers on where that 15% money goes..... Bread and Circuses Aug 10 #1

kinda sounds like a Mafia-type thing RussBLib Aug 10 #2

More slush funds for questionable reasons from questionable sources newdeal2 Aug 10 #3

Market Summary NVIDIA Corp 4.46 trillion USD progressoid Aug 10 #4

Whatever you want to call it, it's going directly into his pocket. Dem2theMax Aug 10 #5

Unusual? Hardly. Trump wants his vigorish for everything. PSPS Aug 11 #6

Also known as flamingdem Aug 11 #7

This is selling US national security, according to the Trump regime's own argument muriel_volestrangler Aug 11 #8

Export tax. They may be the last sales those two companies make in China. Expect in a few years China to move ahead. . n Bernardo de La Paz Aug 11 #9