Trump hat China gerade die Werkzeuge übergeben, um Amerika in KI zu schlagen

Writing at *The Free Press*, Distinguished Visiting Fellow [Matthew Pottinger](https://www.hoover.org/profiles/matt-pottinger) and coauthor Liza Tobin warn that President Trump’s decision to lift the ban on exporting Nvidia’s “powerful H20 chips” to China “may be remembered as the moment when America surrendered the technological advantage needed to bring manufacturing home and keep our nation secure.” Noting that Nvidia and fellow chipmaker AMD have entered into a revenue sharing agreement with the US government as a condition of this deal, Pottinger and Tobin argue that this “effectively monetizes what was supposed to be a national security restriction.” The authors push back against claims that the chips now permitted for export have little national security relevance by showing evidence that Chinese entities, including the People’s Liberation Army, plan to use the chips for “a range of weapons systems, including robotic dogs.” As the authors—both first-term Trump administration officials—conclude, “We shouldn’t hand our adversaries the tools to beat us.”

Trump is the most pro-Beijing president since Nixon, and despite his tariff bluster this was true in his first term too