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Chuck Schumer Casts Doubt On Trump's Chips Deal With Saudi And UAE, Warns It Could Aid China
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5/15/2025
During remarks on the Senate floor Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about President Trump's proposed chips deal with Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
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On the chip deal, Donald Trump says he's strong on China, but his trip to the
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Middle East shows once again that this is mostly talk with very little substance.
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Just like in his recent reduction in tariffs with China, America got almost
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nothing and China got everything. This again, the chip deal, shows that China's
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running circles, the Chinese government is running circles around Donald Trump.
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Right now the Trump administration is in talks for a so-called chip deal
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with Saudi Arabia and the UAE that would greenlight the sale of the most
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sensitive US chip technology in exchange for vague promises of more foreign
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investment. This deal could very well be dangerous because we have no clarity on
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how the Saudis and Emiratis will prevent this Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese
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government, the Chinese manufacturing establishment, from getting their hands
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on these chips. Inevitably, when foreign countries end up with American-made chips,
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the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, sooner or later gets hold of these American chips
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and their secrets in them. That's why we've had such strong restrictions against
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exporting these chips to other countries. This deal screams security risk and loophole
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as China could be ready to exploit American technology. No respected security expert
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will tell you with a straight face that these advanced chips won't eventually find
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their way into the AI supercomputers of the Chinese government and manufacturers.
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And I'm not the only one worried. It's not just Democrats worried on this. Thank God the
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Republican chair of the House Select Committee on the CCP has expressed similar
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concerns about these deals. Even worse, if we send our best chips to Saudi Arabia and
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the UAE, we'll be giving them the tools they need to build the best IA supercomputers
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in the world, in their countries, not America. What's this about bringing jobs and high-end
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technology back to the country, which we Democrats worked so long and hard to do successfully
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in the science and chips bill? All of a sudden, it's okay to give it to other countries, especially
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other countries whose security might be not as tight as ours and allow the Chinese government
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to get hold of these chips. I urge Secretary Rubio, who has been a China hawk, and Secretary
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Lutnik, to prevent these deals from proceeding until we can be dead certain that these chips
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won't make their way into Chinese government hands. Remember that earlier this year, DeepSeek
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announced the development of an incredibly powerful AI model built with American chips. We have to double down,
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on blocking the flow of our AI chips to China directly and indirectly through third countries.
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The Trump administration also needs to protect against offshoring of American AI technology.
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AI is the industry of our time. It should be proudly made in America by American workers, not sent overseas
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to the highest bidder. Why did Trump make this deal? Who the heck knows? The way he trades for things
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for his own personal aggrandizement, and for his own ego, and to please a few of his friends. Lord knows
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why they got hold of these chips, why they're getting hold of these chips, what was done in exchange
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that made Trump happy. If Trump's goal in the Middle East is to enrich himself long term,
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then by all accounts, he's knocking it out of the park. But if his goal is to ensure American security and
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American AI leadership, this deal would be like a stick of lit dynamite. Yield the floor.
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