S8 Ep186: Nvidia Chip Sales to China Raise National Security Concerns: Colleague Brandon Weichert reports on the Trump administration approving Nvidia H200 chip sales to China while taking a 25% cut, warning this transactional approach compromises national security
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batch with Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang, my colleague and co-hosts, |
| 0:10.5 | and we need clarity. And so we go to our colleague, Brandon Weikert, author of Winning Space and other |
| 0:15.8 | best-selling books. He's at the national interest. To help us unpack what is a confusing mix of statements |
| 0:23.3 | about NVIDIA and the People's Republic of China. Invita is a small startup in the 1990s and comes |
| 0:32.0 | to accept the fact that it's never going to get outside of video games for manufacturing its GPUs, its graphic |
| 0:39.0 | cards. And then one day something called the AI discovers NVIDIA. Since then, it is a $5 trillion |
| 0:47.7 | company, and it has high-end chips that are part of the geostrategic game afoot. |
| 0:55.6 | What will the U.S. permit, NVIDIA, U.S. company, led by a man named Wang, |
| 1:00.9 | a migrant from Taiwan, I mentioned, a very hardworking man. |
| 1:05.6 | What will it permit Mr. Wang and his company to sell to the People's Republic of China? |
| 1:11.5 | Therein lies the game. |
| 1:13.2 | Brandon, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:15.5 | Yes, no, yes, no. |
| 1:17.0 | Back and forth. |
| 1:17.8 | I've lost track. |
| 1:18.8 | But suddenly there's a yes. |
| 1:21.1 | Something from Envidia near the high end may be sold to China. |
| 1:27.2 | I'm going to stop there because I get lost in the detail. |
| 1:31.1 | These are remarks by the President of the United States. |
| 1:34.9 | What is it they're selling and what are the limitations? |
| 1:38.5 | Good evening to you. |
| 1:39.9 | Good evening, John, and hello, Gordon. |
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