{"id":4177,"date":"2025-12-05T02:40:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/us-senators-unveil-bill-to-keep-trump-from-allowing-ai-chip-sales-to-china\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T02:40:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:40:26","slug":"us-senators-unveil-bill-to-keep-trump-from-allowing-ai-chip-sales-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/us-senators-unveil-bill-to-keep-trump-from-allowing-ai-chip-sales-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"US senators unveil bill to keep Trump from allowing AI chip sales to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>It requires Commerce Department to deny any licence requests for AI chip buyers in China, Russia, Iran or North Korea.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>A bipartisan group of United States senators, including prominent Republican China hawk Tom Cotton, has unveiled a bill that would block the administration of President Donald Trump from loosening rules restricting Beijing\u2019s access to artificial intelligence chips for 2.5 years.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, unveiled on Thursday, is known as the SAFE CHIPS Act and was filed by Republican Senator Pete Ricketts and Democrat Chris Coons.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 4 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/4\/meet-the-uss-drug-running-friends-a-history-of-narcotics-involvement\">Meet the US\u2019s drug running friends: A history of narcotics involvement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/4\/eurovision-organisers-debate-whether-israel-should-be-barred-from-contest\">Eurovision organisers debate whether Israel should be barred from contest<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/4\/has-the-pentagon-really-exonerated-pete-hegseth-over-signal-leaks\">Has the Pentagon really exonerated Pete Hegseth over Signal leaks?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 4 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/4\/last-foreign-carriers-halt-flights-to-venezuela-after-trumps-airspace-ban\">Last foreign carriers halt flights to Venezuela after Trump\u2019s airspace ban<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>It would require the Commerce Department, which oversees export controls, to deny any licence requests for buyers in China, Russia, Iran or North Korea to receive US AI chips more advanced than the ones they currently are allowed to obtain for 30 months. After that, the Department of Commerce would have to brief Congress on any proposed rule changes a month before they take effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDenying Beijing access to [the best US] AI chips is essential to our national security,\u201d Ricketts said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, which was co-sponsored by Republican Dave McCormick and Democrats Jeanne Shaheen and Andy Kim, represents a rare effort led in part by Trump\u2019s own party to stop him from further relaxing tech export restrictions on China.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with new Chinese export curbs on the rare earth metals that global tech companies rely on, Trump\u2019s Commerce Department imposed and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/economy\/2025\/7\/15\/nvidias-ceo-says-it-gained-us-approval-to-sell-h20-ai-chips-to-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rolled back curbs on Nvidia\u2019s H20 AI chips<\/a>, a move that was criticised by Republican Representative John Moolenaar, who chairs the House Select Committee on China.<\/p>\n<p>As part of negotiations with China to delay its own rare earth controls, Trump pushed back by a year a rule to restrict US tech exports to units of already-blacklisted Chinese companies and has pledged to nix a Biden-era rule restricting AI chip exports globally to countries based in part on concerns around chip smuggling to China.<\/p>\n<p>The bill comes as the\u00a0Trump administration mulls greenlighting sales of Nvidia\u2019s H200 artificial intelligence chips to China. China hawks in Washington fear that Beijing could use the prized chips to supercharge its military with AI-powered weapons and more powerful intelligence and surveillance capabilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It requires Commerce Department to deny any licence requests for AI chip buyers in China, Russia, Iran or North Korea. 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