Trump’s commerce secretary pick vows to keep China from using US tech to ‘compete with us’


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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