As White House moves to send AI chips to China, Trump’s DOJ prosecutes chip smugglers

U.S. prosecutors announced a guilty plea and related charges in a multi-million-dollar scheme to divert over 7,000 NVIDIA H100/H200 GPUs to China using shell companies, falsified shipping documents, and relabeling operations, with BIS seizing misclassified shipments; the case unfolds alongside a Trump administration plan to permit H200 sales to China under conditions, drawing criticism from lawmakers and experts who warn that smuggling and weak enforcement undermine export-control strategy and U.S. national security.