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.

It is hard to see how both the first and third statements are true. (RELATED: The Chinese Trap Sprung On America In South Korea)

Those who say the U.S. should sell advanced chips argue that the U.S., with those sales, can keep China addicted to the American technology stack. They apparently imagine that China will keep buying inferior American semiconductors and therefore will slow the development of the Chinese chip industry.

Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder of cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, correctly calls this argument “a dangerous myth.”

“Rather than........

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