Resignation of Nvidia CEO has accelerated a cross party push in Washington to tighten US export controls on advanced AI chips bound for China. 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 Previously, every proposed tightening of chip export controls to China ran into some obstacle. Jensen Huang personally argued that excessive restrictions would simply hand the Chinese market to Huawei without achieving a security benefit. That argument rested on Huang’s credibility as the person Washington trusted to make honest representations about what Nvidia was actually selling, to whom, and through which intermediaries. Megaspeed episode shows existing controls are being systematically evaded through Southeast Asian shell companies.