The Commerce Secretary nominee, during his confirmation hearing, expressed a clear aversion to Chinese technology, aiming to prevent its use, including American-made semiconductor chips from Nvidia, to compete. His threats of ‘across-the-board tariffs’ against Beijing and other nations seem like a strategic overture. When addressing the impressive showing of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, his choice of words subtly hints at operations that may not be as ‘above board’ as one would hope.
Trump’s commerce secretary pick vows to keep China from using US tech to ‘compete with us’
