Trump Adviser David Sacks Says China Adept at Evading Chip Curbs

White House crypto and artificial intelligence czar David Sacks warned that China has grown adept at evading US export controls and is at most two years behind American semiconductor design capabilities.

In a Bloomberg Television interview on Wednesday, Sacks said the US should be concerned that Huawei Technologies Co. is moving fast to catch up to its rivals outside China. He said that DeepSeek’s breakthrough AI model earlier this year demonstrated how China could still advance even with export controls in place.