Comment by Matt Pottinger

Imagine, if you will, that the question before you today were whether the United States should sell China our advanced propulsion systems that make our nuclear submarines quiet and stealthy. [...] We would laugh at the premise there’s any debate. [...] China’s lack of access to advanced semiconductors and its inability to produce them at scale constitute the central bottleneck preventing China from overtaking the United States in AI. [...] Congress needs to step in, reverse the policy, and put durable guardrails in place so the mistake can’t be repeated. [...] The Netherlands and Japan are home to companies that make equipment no one else in the world can—including the machines that print circuits on advanced chips. [...] We need to expand our existing controls and push our allies to level up.