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> We don't need to "officially" recognize Taiwan when many congress folks invest heavily there. Fun fact about laws: yeah you do. You can only litigate the let
by TheRealPomax 4y ago
> We don't need to "officially" recognize Taiwan when many congress folks invest heavily there.
Fun fact about laws: yeah you do. You can only litigate the letter of the law, not the spirit. If the law says "you cannot export to China" and the fabs are in Taiwan, then either NVidia's breaking the law by default, or they're not and the US officially recognizes Taiwan as not being part of China.
Whether that's what they intentionally went for when they wrote this: preeeetty sure it wasn't, but they just created a potentially massive legal situation.
- IanCal 4y agoHow is this not just solved by issuing Nvidia a license?
- km3r 4y agoYou can absolutely write law that says "you can only sell to the Taiwan region of china". Not recognizing independence but still restricting sales to mainland china.
- dwheeler 4y agoLaws and regulations can be written to work with such situations, e.g., to treat different regions differently. It's not even terribly unusual. I haven't checked into this particular case, but this situation is so long-standing that I suspect things have had plenty of time to get worked out.