President Donald Trump wanted to discuss a request by Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang to allow sales of the company’s Blackwell artificial intelligence chips to China with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea, but top officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, told Trump the sales would threaten national security and would boost China’s AI data-center capabilities and backfire on the U.S., sources told The Wall Street Journal’s Lingling Wei, Amrith Ramkumar and Robbie Whelan. Others against the approval included U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, according to Journal sources.
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