The US just quietly unlocked Nvidia’s H200 AI chips for China again, but here’s the twist: China might not even want them. Trump-era rules are being relaxed so Nvidia can ship some advanced chips back into China — but the real cutting-edge stuff like Blackwell and Rubin is still banned. At the same time, China’s pouring money into building its own chips, and more voices are asking, “Why depend on the US at all?” So the question isn’t just whether China will catch up, it’s: when China does catch