S8 Ep966: (13) Jack Burnham discusses how Nvidia chips reach the Chinese military through loopholes in export controls and subsidiaries. He notes bureaucratic confusion over the "AI diffusion rule" allowed Chinese firms to stockpile high-end hardware. Burnham recom
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🗓️ 4 June 2026
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(13) Jack Burnham discusses how Nvidia chips reach the Chinese military through loopholes in export controls and subsidiaries. He notes bureaucratic confusion over the "AI diffusion rule" allowed Chinese firms to stockpile high-end hardware. Burnham recommends stricter Commerce Department guidance to prevent further military modernization.
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| 0:59.3 | For full terms, visit the QVC website. I'm John Bachelor. I welcome my colleague Jack Burnham of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, a senior fellow, |
| 1:25.2 | observing the People's Republic of China's ability to get access to very high-end |
| 1:30.8 | technology and turn it to its advantage. In this particular instance, it's not only high-end |
| 1:37.4 | chips, microchips, the magic of the future, but also very recognizable automobiles, not even electric vehicles, automobiles. |
| 1:47.8 | And then there is the magnificently obvious, but here we go again, of biotechnology. |
| 1:55.2 | Jack, a very good evening to you. Thank you very much. |
| 1:57.7 | We begin with chips because we've talked about it before. |
| 2:01.7 | Some weeks ago, |
| 2:09.6 | you were reporting very carefully about two Chinese nationals who were importing Nvidia chips to Singapore. I believe they presented them as gaming chips and then repackaged them and sent them into China. Outlaws, clearly, |
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