Catenaa, Tuesday, December 09, 2025- President Donald Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to sell advanced chips to China marks a shift in US tech policy and how far he’ll go to steady ties with Xi Jinping.
Trump granted America’s most valuable company permission on Tuesday to export its high-end H200 chip to China, watering down years of US national security safeguards.
While he pledged Nvidia’s top products would remain off-limits, the move gives China access to semiconductors at least a generation ahead of its current best technology.
Justifying that decision, Trump vowed to simultaneously “protect National Security, create American Jobs, and keep America’s lead in AI.”
That philosophy echoed Nvidia CEOJensen Huang’s claims that depriving Beijing of US chips only helps Chinese firms such as Huawei Technologies catch up, and calls from within Trump’s own cabinet to get China “addicted” to American tech.
It’s the latest example of Trump putting national security controls once deemed off limits in trade talks on the negotiating table with China.
That reversal will test how the US president handles other contentious issues, such as Chinese investment into the US and even America’s position on Taiwan, as Beijing ramps up pressure on the self-ruled democracy it claims as its own.
Despite the announcement, Nvidia Stock was down by 1% on Tuesday morning.
It remains to be seen whether Beijing will accept the H200 or push for the more powerful Blackwell. When Trump previously eased restrictions on the less advanced H20 chip, authorities in Beijing summoned Nvidia to discuss alleged security risks — signaling to domestic importers that they should steer clear.
The Financial Times, citing two people familiar with the matter who weren’t identified, reported that regulators in Beijing are considering ways to allow limited access to the H200, with buyers perhaps subjected to an approval process to explain why domestic producers didn’t meet their needs.
