NEW: The U.S. has tried to block A.I. chips made by Nvidia and others from China, amid concerns they will aid its military.

But our investigation found an active trade in the technology — part of a global effort to help China circumvent the restrictions.

nytimes.com/2024/08/04/tec… I spent the last six months digging into this topic, working with the talented @fu_claire and @KeithBradsher. We spoke with more than 85 officials, executives, chip smugglers and others, reviewed lots of records and visited markets and businesses in Beijing, Shenzhen and Kunshan.

U.S. Said to Plan New Limits on China’s A.I. and Supercomputing Firms.

The new rules could be the Biden administration's biggest action yet to thwart China’s access to technology that powers data centers and supercomputers

with @paulmozur and @ewong nytimes.com/2022/10/03/bus… The Biden administration is considering expanding the foreign direct product rule -- the one that ultimately struck the blow to Huawei -- to a number of Chinese firms, research labs and other entities, according to people familiar with the discussions. Could be soon as this week

NEW: “Havana syndrome” grabbed headlines when it swept through the American missions, first in Cuba and then in China. But previously unreported incidents also took place in Russia and elsewhere, an NYT investigation has found nytimes.com/2020/10/19/us/… with @ewong @julianbarnes American diplomats and spies who served in Cuba, China and Russia say the Trump administration has concealed the true extent of the mysterious events, which could actually be attacks on American citizens by a foreign power

Trump’s trade deal secured gains for tech firms operating in China. But the end result of the two-year conflagration may end up being more damaging for them

nytimes.com/2020/01/20/bus…

@ceciliakang and I look at the case of Micron, an Idaho chipmaker at the heart of the trade war @ceciliakang Micron rebuffed a takeover by a Chinese state-owned company, only to have its designs stolen and replicated and its business blocked from China. The Trump administration saw it as a “camera ready case” and met the company repeatedly as they designed their trade offensive on China

I'm covering the OTHER hearing this morning. No, not Jay Powell's... Ways and Means Committee Chair Neal in his introductory to Robert Lighthizer's testimony today: The Trump administration must hold out with China for a good deal, a structural deal