- “Rather than grow dependent, China will take Nvidia chips while they are available, use them to train models to compete with American frontier variants and continue to invest heavily in domestic alternatives like Huawei’s Ascend chips. When those are good enough, the firms will drop Nvidia—and quickly.” — Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder of the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, letter to the Wall Street Journal, December 21, 2025.
- Alperovitch believes that America’s only advantage in the AI race is its advanced chips. Trump, however, is giving the Chinese better chips than they now have.
- “During the height of the Cold War, it was unthinkable for the U.S. to sell supercomputers to the Soviet Union, the equivalent of the GPUs today. We’ve never won technological competitions by arming our competitors—we’ve prevailed by preserving a clear and enduring advantage.” — Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder of the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, referring to Graphics Processing Units, the specialized chips at the core of AI infrastructure, letter to the Wall Street Journal, December 21, 2025.
- Whether or not Trump just gave away the century to China, he has definitely given the Chinese military better tools to kill Americans. Although the president in his Truth Social posting stated that licenses would be granted only for “approved customers,” these chips will end up with military and other parties that threaten U.S. security. There is no way the U.S. can control their usage once they enter China. In China, Xi enforces “military-civil fusion,” so the military has access to everything it wants.
- The Trump administration is now conducting an interagency review — State, Energy, War, and Commerce — of the proposed sale of H200 chips to Chinese customers. We can only hope the review reverses an unjustifiable giveaway to China.
Nvidia has told Chinese customers that it can start shipping them its second-most powerful chip, the H200, before mid-February.
President Donald Trump’s decision this month to reverse a Biden-era ban on the export to China of advanced chips and approve the sale of H200s is a grave mistake, wrong both strategically and morally.
Trump, keeping a pre-election promise to tech billionaires, is giving China the means to surpass the United States in the critical race to dominate Artificial Intelligence (AI). Moreover, China will almost certainly use the chip for military purposes.
Trump, in a December 8 Truth Social posting, announced he had informed Chinese leader Xi Jinping that he would approve the sale of the H200.
“We will protect National Security, create American Jobs, and keep America’s lead in AI,” Trump wrote.
Anytime China gets a hold of any new tech, they copy it, produce cheap crappy versions of it and saturate our market with it. The good products die off because they are too expensive and we pay just as much for the cheap junk in the long run with all the constant replacements. By then the quality product is no longer produced because the company goes bankrupt. Then China has the market and jacks up the price for the garbage because no one here can compete. Look at most expensive appliances today and tell me they are as good as the old ones. Landfills get filled with an exponential amount of garbage. It’s a total loss for us and a win for them.