BLOOMBERG
Dec 10, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to sell advanced chips to China marks more than just a shift in U.S. tech policy. It also raises questions about how far he’ll go to steady ties with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The Republican leader granted America’s most-valuable company permission on Tuesday to export its high-end H200 chip to China, watering down years of U.S. national security safeguards. While he pledged Nvidia’s top products would remain off bounds, the move gives China access to semiconductors at least a generation ahead of its best technology.
Justifying that decision, Trump vowed to simultaneously “protect National Security, create American Jobs, and keep America’s lead in AI.” That philosophy echoed Nvidia chief Jensen…
BLOOMBERG
Dec 10, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to sell advanced chips to China marks more than just a shift in U.S. tech policy. It also raises questions about how far he’ll go to steady ties with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The Republican leader granted America’s most-valuable company permission on Tuesday to export its high-end H200 chip to China, watering down years of U.S. national security safeguards. While he pledged Nvidia’s top products would remain off bounds, the move gives China access to semiconductors at least a generation ahead of its best technology.
Justifying that decision, Trump vowed to simultaneously “protect National Security, create American Jobs, and keep America’s lead in AI.” That philosophy echoed Nvidia chief Jensen Huang’s claims that depriving Beijing of U.S. chips only helps Chinese firms such as Huawei Technologies catch up, and calls from within Trump’s own Cabinet to get China “addicted” to American tech.