WASHINGTON, April 22 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:
U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned witnesses at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled "Stealth Stealing: China's Ongoing Theft of U.S. Innovation." Durbin first asked Helen Toner, Interim Executive Director for the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), about President Trump's decision to sell American AI chips to China.
"I would like to ask you about this Nvidia chip sale to China. In the context of American innovation and competition for innovation, how [does] this makes sense? We take sophisticated computer chips and decide that China can buy them, which was th...