{"id":985625,"date":"2026-01-16T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985625"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:02:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:32:43","slug":"trumps-greenlight-for-nvidia-ai-chips-to-china-draws-fire-from-lawmakers-former-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/trumps-greenlight-for-nvidia-ai-chips-to-china-draws-fire-from-lawmakers-former-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s greenlight for Nvidia AI chips to China draws fire from lawmakers, former officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US lawmakers and former officials on Wednesday questioned President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to allow Nvidia to sell its second \u2060most powerful AI chips in China, arguing the move erodes America&#8217;s AI edge and threatens to electrify Beijing&#8217;s military. <\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration on Tuesday gave a formal green light to China-bound sales of Nvidia&#8217;s H200 chips, putting in place a rule that will likely kick-start shipments of the H200 despite deep concerns among China hawks in \u200cWashington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US lawmakers and former officials on Wednesday questioned President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to allow Nvidia to sell its second \u2060most powerful AI chips in China, arguing the move erodes America&#8217;s AI edge and threatens to electrify Beijing&#8217;s military. The Trump administration on Tuesday gave a formal green light to China-bound sales of Nvidia&#8217;s H200 chips, putting in place a rule that will likely kick-start shipments of the H200 despite deep concerns among China hawks in \u200cWashington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}