Dealing with China

China's leader, Xi Jinping, made a state visit to Washington on September 23 and 24, his first since 2015, and the two governments extended their trade truce to January 10, 2027. Still open: whether sales of American AI chips to China continue, who approves them, and a $14 billion arms package for Taiwan.

4 questions · about 2 minutes

Question 1 of 4

Since January, American companies can apply for licenses to sell advanced AI chips, though not their most powerful, to buyers in China.

Should these sales be allowed, or stopped?

Allow them. Sales keep China relying on American chips rather than its own, and a ban mostly hands buyers to Chinese chipmakers, even if Chinese labs get stronger chips sooner

Stop them. China can't yet make chips this good, and these would power its military and domestic surveillance, even though American companies give up billions in sales