Or is this pay to play and every other company has to abide by chip restrictions?
DiscourseFan · 1d ago
We live in a world where nationalization and gangster politics go hand in hand.
nine_zeros · 1d ago
Yes
refulgentis · 1d ago
Yes
judge123 · 1d ago
On one hand, you're starving a competitor (Huawei) of cash and using China's own money to fund US innovation. Genius, maybe? On the other, you're handing them the tools to level up their entire tech tree. I honestly can't decide. What's the fatal flaw I'm missing here?
ksynwa · 1d ago
China won't abandon developing indigenous technology just because they are able to gain access to American GPUs
thisisit · 1d ago
That this blatant corruption. Pay to play. Every time a company needs to do something illegal, say trade with Russia despite the sanctions, pay US government a cut and go ahead and trade.
thisisit · 1d ago
From corrupt businessman to corrupting the government. Next up - trade with North Korea is okay, if you pay the government 50% of your profits.
So weird, a couple dozen posts about this and no one has a lot of comments
breadwinner · 1d ago
Trump is thinking like a business man... ordinarily he would pocket the 15% himself (this is after all the same man who said the entire Gaza should be his personal property) but realizes the country is not yet at the point where that would be seen as normal and acceptable. Trump is taking us in the direction where soon that would be seen as normal and acceptable.
kevingadd · 1d ago
The country's money is his money. For example: That plane that got 'gifted' to him is getting expensive retrofits on the taxpayer's dime, and he gets to keep the plane after he leaves office.
Or is this pay to play and every other company has to abide by chip restrictions?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/us-government-...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/politics/air-force-one...