BEIJING — U.S. President Donald Trump's move to allow Nvidia to ship a more advanced artificial intelligence chip to China will significantly boost Beijing's tech capabilities, according to analysts.

That signals a shift in policy as the U.S., over the past several years, has ramped up restrictions on Chinese access to advanced semiconductors. Though the curbs have not kept Chinese companies such as DeepSeek from finding ways to build AI models that rival their U.S. peers, often at lower operating costs.

"Compute is our main advantage," Rush Doshi, assistant professor at Georgetown University, said on social media platform X, noting that China already has an edge over the U.S. in electrical power, engineers and other areas.

"By giving this up we increase the odds the world runs on Chi

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