Three CFR experts unpack President Donald Trump’s decision to allow the sale of powerful Nvidia AI chips to China.

China may limit access to Nvidia H200 chips despite Trump approving exports. Beijing held emergency talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent to gauge demand. Companies may need approval and must explain why local chips cant meet needs.

Implications are revolutionary for extremely high real-time demands such as AI large model training, telemedicine, director Liu Yunjie says.

Chinese authorities are using artificial intelligence to turbocharge surveillance and censorship, with the technology predicting public demonstrations and monitoring prison inmates, according to a new report.

Chinese OpenAI challenger Zhipu has hit a key revenue milestone and grown users of its fledgling AI development tools business, hoping the fast-growing service will propel an upcoming stock market debut.

So far this year, Chinese open-source LLMs averaged 13 per cent of weekly token volume, as growth accelerated in the second half of 2025, to almost match the 13.7 per cent average recorded by AI models from the rest of the world, the report said.

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is developing its next major AI model using thousands of Nvidia’s advanced Blackwell chips that are banned from export to China, according to a report from The Information,

China on Wednesday gathered its biggest tech giants to discuss whether to allow them to buy Nvidia’s advanced H200 chips, as President Donald Trump’s recent decision to allow the export of the powerful hardware to the country suddenly complicated Beijing’s goal to become technologically

Moore Threads, dubbed the 'Nvidia of China,' skyrocketed 425% on its first trading day, raising questions about its potential to rival Nvidia in the AI chip market despite being generations behind.

Chinese AI models have staged a silent revolution and now account for nearly 30% of global open-source AI usage. It is a dramatic rise that reflects a major shift in the technology landscape, as Chinese-developed systems challenge the Western dominance despite ongoing restrictions on advanced chip access.