Huang’s China affair may fix Howard Lutnick, the man who wanted to fix India

TOI correspondent from Washington: For commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, the roadmap for major trade deals was simple: countries like India and Brazil had to be “fixed” to set an example to the world; specifically, PM Modi needed to make a placatory phone call to President Trump; and China needed to be kept dependent on the United States. Except, when it came to selling American AI chips to Beijing, it turns out he was less a hawk and more a dove, like Nvidia’s Jensen Huang.