How to Stop China’s AI Chip Smuggling

Trump should strike a deal with Southeast Asia to secure imported U.S. AI chips.

An Nvidia chip is seen on screen during the inauguration of Europe's fastest supercomputer Jupiter at the Supercomputing Centre in Juelich, Germany, on Sept. 5. September 16, 2025, 9:28 AM Comment icon View Comments ( )

Over the past two years, Chinese actors have used a gray market network of buyers, sellers, and brokers in Southeast Asia to circumvent U.S. restrictions on cutting-edge chips used for artificial intelligence and other high performance computing applications. Donald Trump laid the groundwork for controls on specialized AI chips in 2020 , with restrictions seeking to prevent China from using Western technology for military advantage. But wh

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