Comment by Matt Pottinger

China's lack of access to advanced semiconductors and its inability to produce them at scale constitutes the central bottleneck preventing China from overtaking the United States in AI. [...] Imagine if the question before you were whether to sell China the propulsion systems that make our nuclear submarines stealthy. We don't laugh at the premise that there's nothing to debate. Congress needs to reverse the decision to sell advanced AI chips to China, add guardrails to prevent similar actions in the future, and pressure allies such as the Netherlands and Japan to fully match U.S. export controls. Unverified source (2026)