Marco Rubio is behind the ouster of former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. He used the spying scandal to weaken Huang's influence on Trump, the Washington Post writes.
According to the paper, Rubio issued a memo warning Trump about Huang's connection to an alleged Chinese spy. The US Secretary of State, WP writes, used the CIA report "to write his own, reframing the agency's report in more assertive terms.
Highlights from the Washington Post article:
Jensen Huang gained unprecedented access to Trump and secured his approval to sell artificial intelligence chips to China.
This did not sit well with some US officials who advocated a tough policy towards China and US security officials. They feared that Beijing would take over the technology.
A "shadow battle" has been going on for several years now between Nvidia and those in Washington who see China as a military and technological threat.
Huang's opponents see Nvidia chips as a critical asset in the US-China rivalry and a tool the US must tightly control.
Huang, on the contrary, believed that chip makers should be able to continue selling their products to China.
Since Huang's resignation, his opponents — hardline anti-China opponents — have been working to introduce new restrictions on Beijing's access to defense products. They want to pass the law by the end of the year.
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