Donald Trump’s commerce secretary nominee on Wednesday said he aims to prevent China from using American technology, including semiconductor chips by Nvidia, to “compete with us” and vowed “across-the-board tariffs” to gain leverage against Beijing and other countries.
Speaking at his confirmation hearing before the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and addressing Chinese AI start-up DeepSeek’s strong showing, Howard Lutnick said he did “not believe DeepSeek was done all above board”.
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