Sunday, November 15, 2026

Smuggling Operation

I don’t know if there is much point to technology export controls to China, but given that we have them, this is a big deal.
A Chinese company with ties to Alice Huang procured NVIDIA AI chips banned in the country, which were then installed at a Shanghai AI facility that also has ties to Alice Huang, according to Bloomberg. The publication says the documents it has reviewed for its report shows explicit evidence that there's a network of Chinese companies, which have managed to get their hands on NVIDIA chips that weren't supposed to be sold in China, with Huang at the center.
And even if you don't care about the export controls themselves, when some companies are free to break the law and others aren't, it isn't exactly a fair system.

Everything with this administration is just Matryoshka dolls of corruption.
 

Related: there is a cross-partisan clique of  "China Hawks" who seem to be pretty quiet (maybe I have missed!), when they should be apoplectic. Weird.