In a move with major implications for national security and the global race to dominate artificial intelligence,

President Trump yesterday announced he will allow Nvidia to sell its H200 computer chip,

that's an advanced chip used for developing AI, to China.

In a truth social post, the president said the sales would move forward under conditions that allow for continued

strong national security and that the deal would support American jobs, strengthen U.S.

manufacturing, and benefit American taxpayers. Under the arrangement, the U.S. government would

receive a 25% cut of NVIDIA's sales to China. The decision marks a sharp reversal from the Biden administration,

which had banned shipments of advanced AI chips to China and from President Trump's own

earlier stance when he followed a similar ban on national security grounds. For perspective,

we're joined now by Chris Miller, author of Chip War, the fight for the world's most critical

technology. He's also a professor

of international history at Tufts University. Thanks for being with us. Thank you for having me.

So help our viewers understand why this is happening now. We know that NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Wong,

has aggressively lobbied to lift this ban. In your view, would actually change the president's position.

Well, I think the president was convinced that the sales of these ships would generate enough

revenue, both for chip companies, but also for the U.S. government that it was in the U.S.

interest. I think there's also a belief in some quarters in Washington that if you sell more chips to China,

you can dissuade them or prevent them from trying to build up their own chip ecosystems.

And those were the two primary rationales for this flip-flop on export control policy.

We'll lay out the core national security concerns here.

I think there are two main categories of national security

concern. First is that it's already the case that all of the world's leading militaries and

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