U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio reacts to reports and concerns surrounding NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s connections with China, as Washington faces growing questions over America's technology relationship with Beijing. The discussion highlights rising tensions over semiconductor exports, China's access to advanced AI chips, and the national security implications of NVIDIA's business ties with the Chinese market. As the U.S. tightens restrictions on advanced technology exports, Rubio's remarks bring renewed attention to the growing battle between Washington and Beijing over artificial intelligence, chip technology, and global economic security.
#MarcoRubio #NVIDIA #JensenHuang #ChinaLinks #Rubio #NVIDIAChina #USChinaTensions #China #TrumpAdministration #AIChips #SemiconductorWar #USChinaRelations #TechWar #ChinaTechnology #NVIDIANews #ArtificialIntelligence #ChipWar #USNationalSecurity #BreakingNews #ChinaUS
~HT.318~PR.460~ED.103~GR.506~VG.HM~
#MarcoRubio #NVIDIA #JensenHuang #ChinaLinks #Rubio #NVIDIAChina #USChinaTensions #China #TrumpAdministration #AIChips #SemiconductorWar #USChinaRelations #TechWar #ChinaTechnology #NVIDIANews #ArtificialIntelligence #ChipWar #USNationalSecurity #BreakingNews #ChinaUS
~HT.318~PR.460~ED.103~GR.506~VG.HM~
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:12I can't comment on any of that. I just can't comment because of the nature of it. And I also
00:22can't comment on an internal corporate matter that's going on with the video. As you highlight,
00:27I don't know anything about that part of itself. I'm not in the political office. As you know,
00:37I just don't comment on domestic politics. Sorry to be less than exciting with regards to that. It's a
00:42new thing for me, after having spent 14 years doing it. But I think this role is best done
00:46for the most part when you don't engage yourself in domestic politics. I think it's been a long
00:49outstanding tradition. Well, I'm not going to comment on the war. I'm sorry, on the elections,
00:59which is what you're asking me about. All I can tell you is that the president of the United States
01:02identified a very real threat to this country that's existed for a very long period of time,
01:06and he addressed it. And he addressed it, even though oftentimes the right thing to do for the
01:11country, confronting difficult challenges for the security of our country, doing it isn't
01:15necessarily popular, but necessary. At the end of the day, I think we can all agree,
01:20I think there's bipartisan, I would hope there's bipartisan, maybe not anymore, but there used to
01:24be bipartisan acknowledgement that a nuclear Iran would be completely unacceptable and dangerous for
01:31the United States, not just Israel, not just the Middle East, the whole world and the United States.
01:35So I think the president took on something that other presidents have failed to do.
01:39And sometimes when you do the right thing, I don't know if it's popular or not,
01:42but it's the right thing to do. And presidents are elected to do the hard things, sometimes
01:45difficult things, but necessary things.
01:48Do you think the cost of the war was worse, the electoral blowout?
01:51I told you, I'm not going to comment on the electoral comment. I just don't have any
01:55opinion on what happened in the elections.
01:56On to kind of active conflicts we have now, there seems to be more strikes on Special Island.
02:03Well, the U.S. acts defensively. If there's a threat to our forces in the region,
02:07we will act against those. If there's a threat to shipping, we've been defending
02:11shipping for a while. So if there's a clear and present threat to shipping,
02:14or to our forces in the region, we have a right to defend ourselves.
02:17So all of that is determined by the threat level and whether they're coming after us
02:20or potentially coming after us. I mean, that's just normal.
02:24And then on Ukraine, Russia and Ukraine, the president floated this idea of some kind of
02:28European-wide security attack.
02:32Well, if you remember, well, there'll be talks starting tomorrow in Abu Dhabi.
02:39Oh, I'm sure. But here's why. The entirety of the time we've been talking about Russia and Ukraine,
02:45the one thing that's repeatedly come up is the need for security guarantees. What is the post-war
02:49security infrastructure of Ukraine and more broadly of the European continent going to look like?
02:55It's one of the key topics that's been raised repeatedly in every conversation,
02:59any time negotiations have been discussed. So I think that's what the president's alluding to,
03:04is that there's been some advances made in what that architecture could look like post-conflict.
03:09We obviously have to get past the conflict to get to that point. So there's been talks about that.
03:14I think the president was briefed on that on Thursday or Friday last week. Some of the initial
03:17thoughts that are out there, nothing's been finalized yet. And maybe some progress could be made in
03:21Abu Dhabi tomorrow when Jared and Steve will be there. I think they're on their way there right now.
03:26Mr. Secretary, I know you don't want to comment on the election, but...
03:29But you're going to ask me anyway.
03:30But your allies are going to be there because it's the first opportunity that you all need
03:35to have the G7 after the G7 after the election.
03:36We have elections. We have national elections in our country every two years.
03:40I have been now involved, I guess, going since 2011 when I was sworn in as a senator. So I've
03:47watched
03:47these things. And even in my time in the legislature, it is not uncommon to have a division of power
03:52in
03:52this country. We've seen it before. We've seen elections go one direction and a couple of years
03:57later go another. It's just a feature of our system. So I've been in the minority. I've been
04:01in the majority with regards to being in the Senate. I've been in the majority of the Republican
04:05president. I've been in the minority with the Democrat president. I think I've had every iteration
04:09of it. And the Republican tourism continues. So we'll do our work. We'll continue to do our work.
04:14Congress will do theirs. I hope they do it in a way that's responsible and focused on the issues
04:18that are important to our country and our people. But that's our system of government.
04:22Many of our allies will be aware of it. They, too, have experienced divisions in government
04:27and divisions in their own systems. So we'll have elections again in two more years. And they
04:32could look very different. They could look the same. I don't know. But this is the way our system works.
04:36In particular, unless you're looking to bring two allies on this ship?
04:42With regards to this ship? Well, they have an agenda, as the French have set. Obviously,
04:45we'll be talking about superintelligence. We'll be talking about some of the global conflicts. I'm
04:49sure they'll have a lot of questions about the status of affairs in the Middle East with regards
04:55to Iran. I think there'll be, obviously, conversation. The Ukrainians are joining us.
04:59Sevilla will be there. So I'm sure that topic will come up. And I think they'll be curious to know
05:04if
05:04any progress is being made in the technical talks that are ongoing in Abu Dhabi. And then I imagine
05:09there's a host of other issues they'll want to discuss. But the agenda, you'll see it. I mean,
05:12it's been pretty, it's been laid out some of the topics they want to raise and talk about.
05:16So if you're going to France, is there any worry about the protests that are happening there?
05:20No, I mean, I trust our people. I mean, we asked our people, obviously, if there was a problem,
05:23I think they would tell us. So we got to work must continue, right? And France is at the presidency.
05:30I think this is probably the last meeting of the G7 under their presidency,
05:33in terms of the foreign ministers. And I think we'll host it next year. So
05:38yeah, if our people say it's fine, I believe them.
05:41Any diplomatic progress with Iran for trying a diplomatic end to the war?
05:46I don't have any progress to report to you. I think you see some of these things that are out
05:50there. You have a number of countries that continue to engage them with different ideas,
05:54but I wouldn't say we're on the verge of a breakthrough. The president would always prefer
05:58to solve this and every problem diplomatically. Sometimes that's not possible, unfortunately,
06:03but if there's a chance to do it, we'll explore it. Right now, it hasn't been very productive,
06:07because the Iranian demands are simply not just unacceptable, but in some cases,
06:13outrageous and ridiculous and really not realistic. All right? Let me go through my call.
06:17I'm Haiti quickly, sir. I'm Haiti.
06:19Yeah, the Salvadorian deployments that have gone in there, the president said,
06:23you know, he kind of greenlit that, but is the U.S. providing any support?
06:27I mean, you can say... No, I mean, the Salvadorians are providing their own airless.
06:32So there's two things going on in Haiti. We have the Gang Suppression Force,
06:35which is the UN mission, and they have forces, I think about 100 soldiers that are a part of that,
06:40and that's what we've been engaged in supporting. We don't have troops there, but we've been engaged.
06:44And then there's a separate mission, which they've taken on bilaterally in agreement with the Haitian
06:49officials to go after the gangs that kidnapped their forces that were there, their soldiers that were
06:57there. So that's a separate mission. He called the president and made him aware of what he was
07:01doing, and the president understood why he was doing it. But we're not necessarily,
07:04we're not actively involved in that effort.
07:06Does it potentially undermine the Gang Suppression Force that you have?
07:09No, as long as...
07:10The Salvadorians there, you have the private security contractors,
07:13there's a lot of people on the ground working.
07:15No, as long as the chain of command is well established, who's working for who,
07:19and I think they'll have to, we've raised this point, not being a criticism, just as an observation,
07:24we have to make clear, we have to make sure that there's deconfliction going on. What you can't have
07:29is a Gang Suppression Force running into Salvadorian soldiers and shooting at each other because
07:34they think the other side are gang members. So that's why you'll need a deconfliction mechanism,
07:39you need a lot of strong coordination because they're operating alongside one another.
07:42So we've pointed that out in our amendment, but I don't think it necessarily has to be a conflict.
07:49Okay?
07:49Don't do that in the criminal court, because you're fighting.
07:52Yeah.
07:54We're now into the criticism period before the factions begin on the court itself.
08:01What is your demand of your allies still to make the draw from the right statutes?
08:05Or unless they can get them to change their mind and agree to reform, as they should. They should
08:09make very clear that they do not. You still have elements of the ICC who claim that they have
08:14jurisdiction over citizens that are of non-member states, and we're never going to accept that when
08:20it comes to Americans. It's as simple as that. We've been clear on that for a year and a half.
08:24We've made no progress trying to get them to make that clear in their reforms. They refuse to do so,
08:29so we're taking action. That's it.
08:30Is that what you want to see in writing from the court by your allies?
08:35Yeah, I mean, at this point, you know, we've made clear to them where we stand on it,
08:39and how we feel about it. And we've asked them if they don't want us to take these actions against
08:43the ICC, then they should convince the ICC to wake up and realize that they do not have jurisdiction
08:49over citizens of countries that are not members, especially leaders or service members of countries
08:55that are not members of the treaty. What's the point of the treaty if they claim universal
08:59jurisdiction without limitation and outside the treaty? Then they're way outside the bounds of
09:04the mandate that they may have from these other countries that are members of it.
09:07So it's very simple. If they want to avoid the actions we are going to take against the ICC,
09:12they should convince the ICC once and for all to do the things that are necessary to ensure
09:16that no American service member or leader ever has jurisdiction from the ICC placed on them,
09:23because that's illegitimate. It's an illegitimate action, and they refuse to acknowledge that.
09:26So we'll do what we need to do if they don't do it.
09:28So how big a problem would it be if they had both the blockage of the EU goes ahead
09:32and blocks the enforcement of the Secretary's sanctions?
09:36So I'm not concerned. We have our ways. We'll get to it. The ICC will not be in good shape
09:39if we have to hit them. And we will if we have to. But look, they still have a chance.
09:44Maybe they'll
09:44wake up and realize that their dreams of being some universal court of jurisdiction over everyone,
09:49including countries that didn't sign up, maybe they'll abandon those ridiculous dreams.
09:55We'll see. We're on it. Okay. Thanks, guys.