Moolenaar presses Trump to tighten AI chip export limits on China
The House China panel chair's request comes as Beijing calls US relations "constructively stable."
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Representative John Moolenaar, who chairs the House committee on China, is urging President Trump to tighten export controls on artificial intelligence chips sold to China.
The request lands just as Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi described relations with Washington as "constructively stable" following a call with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, with tariff talks between the two countries still underway.
Huawei already holds a bigger share of China's domestic AI chip market than Nvidia, according to Huawei executive Xu. Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has forecast that the company's chip sales will double next year, underscoring how much of its growth still depends on access to the Chinese market.
Tighter controls would speed up the separation of the two countries' chip industries in a market Huawei already leads at home, cutting Washington's leverage in tariff negotiations and complicating a diplomatic opening that includes Apple chief executive Tim Cook's planned dinner with Trump and Xi Jinping. Moolenaar's push fits Trump's broader protectionist instincts, but it adds friction to a trade relationship both sides have just described as stable.