• davel@lemmy.mlOP
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    3 hours ago

    I think the smuggling and the general desire to continue exporting to China is the key here, and that Alice Huang being a spy is bullshit. I think she’s a chip smuggler, something that the Chinese state has been trying to curtail, because it wants to develop its own domestic chip industry that’s no longer depended on Western chip manufacturers. That’s why millions of NVIDIA chips are currently quarantined at Hong Kong ports.

    I think this is a fight between two factions of big capital, one that wants to constrain China and another that wants to continue profiting from China.

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      I think this is a fight between two factions of big capital, one that wants to constrain China and another that wants to continue profiting from China.

      Do you think that fight is being expressed in this NVIDIA-internal hullabaloo about investigating and potentially Huang? I feel like the capital that wants to constrain China wouldn’t be invested in NVIDIA and would do it through the state apparatus.

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        It is doing it through state apparatus, for example through “anonymous” CIA sources baselessly accusing Alice of espionage and exposing their affair. And they’re doing it behind Trump’s back, because Trump & Jensen have had a chummy relationship.