David C.

U.S. tech execs smuggled Nvidia chips to China, per CNBC

On Tuesday, I testified before the House Homeland Security Committee on China's strides in robotics and AI. I warned that we lost solar, batteries, and EVs -- now we're at risk of losing robotics and AI. If that happens, it would irreversibly change the balance of power. Five points: 1️⃣ China aims to win the next industrial revolution. PRC leaders believe history is shaped by industrial revolutions. The first, steam power, made Britain dominant. The second and third, electrification and mass manufacturing, made America dominant. China is determined to win the fourth. 2️⃣ In robotics, China is already winning. In 2024, China installed 300,000 new industrial robots. America installed 30,000. China now has over 2 million robots in its factories — five times more than the US. A decade ago, it imported 75% of its robots. Today it makes 60% domestically. This year alone, China may spend $400 billion on industrial policy. The entire US CHIPS Act provided $50 billion across multiple years. If we fall behind here, U.S. reindustrialization becomes farfetched. 3️⃣ In AI, we're ahead — but selling off the advantage. China has more energy, more talent, and makes the edge devices. But America still leads because of chips, according to China's own AI companies. US chips are 4-5x better than China's today. We are debating whether to surrender that edge. 4️⃣ We are inviting risks of cyberespionage and catastrophic cyberattacks. PRC law requires its companies to cooperate with intelligence services and never disclose it. Today's robots carry LiDAR, microphones, and cameras — they are mobile surveillance platforms. But the bigger risk is cyberattack. We know China has compromised our power, gas, water, telecommunications, and transportation infrastructure in preparation for cyberattack. We cannot deploy robots in sensitive facilities from the very country targeting those facilities. 5️⃣ Here's what we must do. Extend ICTS rules to cover Chinese robots. Direct CISA to audit where they're deployed in critical infrastructure. Ban federal procurement of Chinese robotics and AI. Strengthen semiconductor export controls. Stop treating American AI companies with more regulatory scrutiny than Chinese ones. And build allied scale in robotics—a trading bloc with preferential terms for the members that can rival China's scale in in the sector. Thanks to @HomelandDemsIt and @HomelandGOP for the hearing on this topic, and grateful to join @MRobbinsAUVSI and colleagues from Scale and Boston Dynamics for a great discussion.

U.S. prosecutors have charged a Super Micro co-founder, employee, and contractor with smuggling Nvidia chips to China. Nvidia says: "unlawful diversion of controlled U.S. computers to China is a losing proposition across the board." $NVDA $SMCI cnbc.com/2026/03/19/us-…

@macastel3 @aminismyname No they are not happy and I know they are ready to overthrow you. Do you know the word “抄家”？ study it and you will know what and why the cultural revolution occurred and why proletarian revolution happened. 无产阶级专政 will happen and it’s a matter of time, my friend.

@brooooo @aminismyname Each market has its own prices right? There is no exploitation. These guys are happy, I always see the same guys doing this job for years

Life goes on in #Tehran, even under the shadow of war. At Tajrish Bazaar, people prepare for #Nowruz — holding on and living life to the fullest. Photo: Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images

@macastel3 @aminismyname But that’s exploitation, no? Would you have paid a delivery guy in Italy $1? All you do is exploiting the system (剥削）and that was the reason CCP overthrew the old system by claiming the system is exploiting its people. I feel sorry to go to China because it’s new exploitation

@brooooo @aminismyname no these delivery guys are very happy to do this job. The alternative is working in a factory and they make good money. Plus working in central Shanghai high density market they can make multiple deliveries in the same building optimising their time.

Rush is spot on with his analysis here. I desperately want America to win. Because you would not want to live in a world dominated by China. You’re reading this on X — and X is banned in China.

两年前，车库咖啡创始人苏菂，公开炫耀如何逃避美国的AI技术制裁，走私了200片英伟达的H200显卡；两年后，苏菂的供应商被抓了，美国司法部今天公布案情：联邦调查局(FBI)调查显示，廖、张、孙三人利用东南亚公司，合谋向中国买家出售数十亿美元英伟达GPU，最长面临20年刑期。

@macastel3 @aminismyname Why are you taking advantage of Chinese cheap labor? Aren’t you guilty for paying $1 for delivery guys you use?

@aminismyname why are they bombing these people???

🚨BREAKING: SUPER MICRO CO-FOUNDER ARRESTED FOR SMUGGLING $2.5B IN NVIDIA GPUs TO CHINA >SMCI co-founder Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw arrested today >personally holds $464 MILLION in SMCI stock >charged with smuggling BILLIONS in Nvidia servers to china >used a southeast asian shell company to funnel $2.5B in servers to chinese buyers >$510 million worth shipped in just THREE WEEKS in spring 2025 >built thousands of fake dummy servers to fool U.S compliance auditors >caught on surveillance camera using a HAIR DRYER to swap serial number stickers >coordinated the whole thing over encrypted group chats >SMCI down 12% after hours >faces up to 30 years in federal prison ITS SO OVER…

@polijunkie_aus You are confused, just like the left. With good conscience but no solution. It takes guts to do things like what Trump is doing.

A Kinsley Gaffe is when a politician inadvertently says something truthful which they had not meant to reveal, for example, when Rubio said the US had to attack Iran because Israel was going to launch a strike which would cause Iran to retaliate. A Graham Gaffe is when a politician purposedly said something truthful because they still had some conscience and spine at the time, only to regret it later when they lost both.

Wow

The first rule of Chinese censorship is, you do not talk about…

On January 12, 2016, while Barack Obama was president, Iran’s IRGC seized a U.S. Navy boat. Iran released footage showing American sailors humiliated, some kneeling and others in tears before Iranian forces.

@CarlZha Much better than Xi? A giant crying baby?

I think the biggest shock to Chinese leadership over the last 10 years is the dawning realization that they had VASTLY overestimated intelligence and compentency of American leadership

@cungcung785 @invalid_search1 @AngelicaOung @brianhioe Oh shut the fxxk up.

@invalid_search1 @brooooo @AngelicaOung @brianhioe Taiwan is belonged to Chinese people. So PRC has every right to do what Chinese people want to do with the island. Taiwan has never been independent. Even the existing constitution and law in Taiwan states so.

Well, I mean, hopefully public opinion is restraining of Xi, but it's not as though China is a democracy. Even so, I think it shows how Taiwan should direct more messaging to the Chinese public, in this sense, to remind of the high costs of war uscnpm.org/china-pulse/ch…

The last bit of our internet is bleeding out, so I am writing this here while I can still force this VPN connection through to the free world. If I die, I will do so with a smile, knowing the enemies of my people and my country died with me. And I want the world to know, no matter what the circumstances, any innocent civilian blood spilled in this war is entirely on the hands of the terrorist Islamic regime occupying Iran. I want the world to know that to us, this is a rescue mission, not a war. I want you to be our voice until Iran is free. The regime is doing everything it can to blindfold us and the world by jamming satellite feeds and strangling the internet. Please remember, no matter how many of us die, the regime is to blame. But if you cannot accept that sentiment, how about this: They slaughtered over 36,000 Iranians in 8 to 12 hours spread over two nights in January alone, and they haven't stopped killing us. You want the reality of the last two weeks of this war? Nearly 5,000 people have died. Over 4,400 of them are the regime's own military, IRGC, Basij, and government personnel getting systematically eradicated. And the innocent civilians? Around 480 have been killed. Why did they die? Because this cowardly terrorist syndicate intentionally embeds its military bases right next to our elementary schools and residential blocks. They use our children and our families as literal human shields while their commanders scurry into the dark. Why do you think the regime actively cuts its own citizens off from information during a war, when information means life and ignorance means death? They are not doing it for our safety. They are plunging us into a digital blackout to hide their own collapsing ranks, and to ensure we cannot coordinate the uprising that will finish them. And look around why don't they have any public air raid sirens or bomb shelters for us? Because for 47 years, they only poured our national wealth into building deep underground bunkers to protect their ballistic missiles and their clerics, leaving the Iranian people completely exposed on the surface to burn. Not only have they been shooting people who take videos of military crash sites, but they have even executed at least one man right in the middle of this chaos. They are actively threatening the Iranian people on state media, telling us they will take revenge on all of us for this war and for the January uprising. They even mass-texted every single one of us that if we dare to come out again, they will commit a massacre that makes January look like nothing. But guess what? None of us give a single damn about their threats. The moment our time comes the moment the call is given to us we will take to the streets to finish what we started and take our country back. I beg you to be our voice and support our leader, @PahlaviReza. We wrote his name on the walls with our blood, and over 36K of our fallen heroes gave their lives asking for his return to the country and chanting his name. Do not step on their blood by standing against him and the future freedom of Iran. We know the way. We know where we want to go, and we know who can take us there. One nation, one flag, one leader for the transition to a secular, democratic Iran. With all that said, I will try to keep my connection to the outside world alive for as long as possible to be the voice of my oppressed people. Long live Iran.🇮🇷✌️

@polijunkie_aus @atrupar Trump likes to exaggerate things, just get over it. He is liked for who he is, and a politician he is NOT. He is a CEO that gets things done. Why does a president have to behave certain ways?

@brooooo @atrupar Yes, a president who lies about everything will lie about more important things like war and peace

Trump: "I knew the Strait would be a weapon. I predicted it a long time ago. I predicted all of this stuff. I predicted Osama bin Laden would knock out the World Trade Center. I wrote it in a book."

@polijunkie_aus @atrupar Does it matter in the grand scheme of things, Yang?

@atrupar After all these years, why hasn't a single journalist bring a copy of his book and ask him to his face "Can you please point to the page where you predict Bin Laden would knock out the World Trade Centre"?

@johnnyrockZARD Try to have China salary, and you won’t be laughing.

Je suis en Chine, à Beijing la capitale, une puissance mondial. - Mon hôtel: 50$ - Mon Café: 2$ - Mon taxi: 18$ pour 30 min - Rendez-vous médical à 15h: 40$ - Demain prise de sang aucune attente. Mais le Canada est un pays libre. Hahaha.

Chuck Norris: "I used to be a Democrat, but unfortunately the Democrats went too far to the left... and lost all reality of what America stood for."