In December 2025, the Trump administration authorized Nvidia to sell its H200 semiconductors to China after securing personal meetings between President Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, in exchange for a 25% government revenue cut. The authorization reverses years of Biden-era export controls on advanced semiconductor sales to China, marking a strategic policy shift driven by commercial lobbying rather than national security consensus. Chinese regulators are assessing whether to permit domestic AI firms limited access to chips six times more powerful than previously allowed H20 models, creating ambiguity on actual market penetration. For financial institutions, this signals material instability in US export policy toward China as a function of corporate influence and administration turnover, alongside structural uncertainty around Chinese willingness to adopt American chips despite performance advantages given political and self-reliance incentives.
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