From the New York Times I'm Ketchum Ben Holt and this is the Daily.

The American Company in Vidia has created one of the most sought-after inventions in the world today,

a computer chip that powers artificial intelligence.

But the company has been in an ongoing battle with the US government

over its chips being sold in China.

Today, my colleague Anna Swanson, on her investigation into America's escalating war

to control this crucial technology and how it may be losing that war. It's Wednesday,

Wednesday, September 4th. So Anna it's really hard to get into China these days as a journalist, but you were

there recently on a mission to find something.

Tell us about that.

Yeah, so I traveled to China,

actually with Secretary of State Tony Blenkin

when he went to China in April.

I'm a trade reporter, not a State Department reporter,

but the State Department reporters

were on spring break with their families,

so I stepped in and gladly went on that trip.

There's been a lot of tension between China and the United States

and the Secretary of State was there on one of many recent missions

to try to stabilize and manage this relationship.

But I had been working on this other story about technology

that the United States has banned from going to China.

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