Proposed US rule to curb China's overseas AI chip access criticized for three major loopholes

teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-13

The Commerce Department is reportedly weighing new rules to restrict China's access to AI chips in overseas data centers, a long-standing export-control gap. Critics flag three flaws: it only covers certain countries (easy to reroute), only future chip exports (existing data centers used by DeepSeek unaffected), and only chips at least as powerful as NVIDIA's Blackwell generation. Attached screenshots show IFP think-tank posts on using executive authority to extend America's AI lead over China by end of 2027.

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