How illegal is it for a CEO to sell goods (potentially a core component used in military weapons) to a foreign government after your government said not to?
Up to 20 years in prison if you knew about it.
More likely would be large fines and possibly restrictions and audits of all future exports.
> Up to 20 years in prison if you knew about it.
Death/execution is also a possibility in the US for the offense
Don't think people realize that whichever politician executes a tech CEO will likely become President for life. The public absolutely hate these people and blood is in the water. Democratic politicians know this, republican politicians know this.
Sure, if we were at war with China. Hard to make the argument that he’s providing aid to the enemy when they’re not officially an enemy
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In this specific case, though, it probably depends more on the fallout between Huang and Trump.
I could easily see Trump pardoning him, but I could also see him getting thrown under the bus.
Presumably there is at least some faction in the Whitehouse out to get him. How else did intelligence wiretaps end up with the NY Times?
Considering the Trump admin flipflopped between
- we can't allow China access to buy or lease any GPUs
and
- turns out China is half the customer base, so cutting them off will crash the market, and the Chinese will just build their own anyways
Considering Trump & Jensen traveled to China just to sell more GPUs and despite that the CCP banned Chinese companies from importing Western Hardware in favor of domestic alternatives, I have my doubts this story makes sense
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Very? Unless you're doing it as part of some CIA operation and even then you better hope you can prove it.