House Foreign Affairs Chair Disagrees With White House Adviser on Chip Sales to China
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, R-Fla., said Jan. 16 that he would “advise” President Donald Trump against allowing Nvidia to sell H200 AI chips to China.
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Mast made his comment in response to an X post by White House AI policy adviser David Sacks, who agreed with a tweet criticizing a Mast bill that would increase congressional oversight of sales of advanced AI chips to China and other “countries of concern" (see 2512190054).
“You can advise [Trump] to sell H200 chips to China if you want, I advise the opposite,” Mast told Sacks. “That’s your prerogative.”
Mast’s comment came two days after a panel of experts told his committee that Congress should overturn the Trump administration’s decision last month to allow Nvidia to export H200s to China (see 2601150025). The experts cited economic and national security concerns.