@SenTomCotton: One of the foreign companies smuggling US chips is OBON, which stands for One Belt, One Network. Call me crazy, but may…
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Senator Tom Cotton alleges that a company named OBON, referencing China's Belt and Road Initiative, is smuggling US chips, and criticizes Super Micro for selling advanced technologies to them.
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One of the foreign companies smuggling US chips is OBON, which stands for One Belt, One Network.
Call me crazy, but maybe American companies shouldn’t sell advanced technologies to companies literally named after one of Xi Jinping’s signature policies.
Super Micro should account for how this could’ve happened.
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