China Calls on US to 'Continue' Reversing Export Controls After H20s
Beijing last week said it’s seeing the U.S. approve exports of Nvidia H20 chips to China and urged the Trump administration to roll back other restrictions against the country.
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A Chinese Ministry of Commerce spokesperson on July 18 said: “We have noticed that the U.S. has recently taken the initiative to approve the sale of Nvidia H20 chips to China. China believes that the U.S. should abandon its zero-sum mentality and continue to cancel a series of unreasonable economic and trade restrictions on China.”
U.S. officials last week said they planned to approve H20 chip exports after Beijing agreed to ease export restrictions over certain rare earths (see 2507150013 and 2507160046).
The ministry spokesperson added that “suppression and containment will lead to no solution,” according to an unofficial translation of the response to a reporter's question at a regular press conference. The spokesperson also criticized the Bureau of Industry and Security’s May guidance on Huawei’s Ascend chips -- which signaled that using those chips anywhere in the world risked breaching U.S. export controls (see 2505210056 and 2505130018) -- saying that damages the “rights” of Chinese companies.
“We hope that the United States will work with China to meet each other halfway, correct its wrong practices through equal consultations, create a good environment for mutually beneficial cooperation between enterprises of both sides, and jointly maintain the stability of the global semiconductor production and supply chain,” the spokesperson said.