I'd be very careful when using that word in this situation. If China wants X, and another country has X, who are you to say they shouldn't trade with each other?
Why does anyone need to be careful using that word? What a bizarre way to try to intimidate someone over speech.
Another country has X because they were expected (in the terms of their purchase) to not sell it to an adversary. So yes they’re supposed to honor that agreement and are not supposed to trade that particular thing X with each other. Not doing so invites sanctions and other consequences. Is it worth the risk just to do business with a dictatorship? Probably not.
If free citizens in the USofA have {X} and China has sanctioned Germany from having {X} should the free citizens of the USofA honor that agreement they made with China to not sell to Germany when they acquired {X} from China?
How about if they got {X} from Mexico ( who got it from Agnes .. ) ?
Some purchases come with strict protocols coded into contracts. Try buying F-35 and selling it to China, for example; See what happens. Other risk you not being able to purchase for yourself anymore and possible sanctions. H100 and others are under export control, I'm just not sure if it's an explicit export control or automatic, like what famously made PowerMac G4 a weapon export. I found a source there was an executive order for hardware exceeding 1e26 floating point operations or 1e23 integer operations. In any case, if an item is under export control that means paperwork and, if you're eligible to purchase, paperwork includes you also signing what you can and cannot do with the item purchased.
People say “it’s used for money laundering” as if we’re supposed to be on China’s side about restricting people’s ability to move money out of the country over certain amounts
Like, oh you’re against freedom from a repressive regime? Or oh you’re only against it when it’s the American government restricting US citizens flow of capital? like I’m confused, pick a lane
Smuggling is normally thought of as hiding something when crossing a border/checkpoint. In this case, it would simply be nvidia violating US sanctions. The goods would have never entered or exited the USA so it's a strange or incorrect use of the word smuggling.
We should forget about the sanction BS … it damages US industry when it has money to make while motivating others to be more self reliant and build the product to compete …
