Chairman John Moolenaar of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party addressed the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy, focusing on securing future-defining technologies. He emphasized the importance of semiconductors, AI, and quantum computing as essential to national security and global power.
Moolenaar expressed his concerns about lifting the ban on selling H20 chips to China. While he acknowledged that this decision could extend U.S. technology standards globally and generate revenue for further tech investments, he stressed that preventing China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) from advancing its military capabilities through U.S. technology remains a core objective.
“The H20 is a stark improvement over what the Chinese can indigenously produce at scale,” Moolenaar noted, warning that these chips could enhance PLA supercomputers’ ability to run advanced AI models. He highlighted how DeepSeek illegally used access to U.S. models to develop comparable capabilities at a lower cost with critical U.S. chips like the H20.
Moolenaar concluded by stating, “We will not allow China to use American chips to build the arsenal of authoritarianism. But we will ensure the world runs on American AI.”
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