🇺🇸🇨🇳 CHINA SAYS “NO” TO NVIDIA H200 CHIP: A NEW CHAPTER IN THE AI COLD WAR 🇨🇳🇺🇸
In a surprising geopolitical twist, Beijing has decided to impose restrictions on the import of NVIDIA’s H200 chips, just after Donald Trump had given the green light for their export to China.
Washington eases its grip, but it is China itself that pulls the brake.
The H200 represents NVIDIA's latest jewel in the field of artificial intelligence: ultra-fast chips, enhanced memory, and computing capabilities ideal for training advanced language models or powering military surveillance systems.
Giving it up is not a technical choice, but a political one.
Why should Beijing block such a strategic advantage?
Three reasons dominate the analysis:
👉 Technological sovereignty: reducing dependence on American semiconductors and pushing the development of “Made in China” chips.
👉 Strategic control: limiting the use of foreign technologies in the most sensitive or state-owned enterprises.
👉 Geopolitical calculation: sending a clear message to Washington – China is no longer playing defense.
This act marks a paradigm shift: the technological competition between the United States and China is no longer a simple reaction to sanctions, but a parallel race towards autonomy and dominance in AI.
Technological “decoupling” is not a future hypothesis.
It is already underway, and now accelerates from both shores of the Pacific.
