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The China-Nvidia Chip Deal Is Even Dumber Than You Think

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Dan Foster writes about how the president’s possibly extortionate “deal” with has allowed ostensibly commercial Chinese firms to acquire the company’s advanced AI chips. Spoiler alert: These ghost firms are almost certainly fronts for the and its contractors.

Trump’s agreement, which I fully lambasted last year, allows Nvidia to sell its H200 semiconductor to companies in China — circumventing also imposed by the Trump administration — in exchange for the federal government’s receiving 15 percent of the sales revenue. Sounds like a horrible deal to me, but at least we’re getting something out of it, right?

John R. Puri

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John R. Puri

John R. Puri is the Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at National Review.

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