Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says calls for economic and technological decoupling between the United States and China ignore how deeply connected the two countries already are.
In a new interview on the No Priors YouTube channel, Jensen Huang says he is optimistic that the relationship between Washington and Beijing can improve under a more pragmatic framework.
Huang says he believes the Trump administration approaches China with realism rather than ideology.
“I am optimistic that our relationship with China will improve. That President Trump and the administration have a really, really grounded and common-sense attitude about and philosophy around how to think about China. That they’re an adversary, but they’re also a partner in many ways.”
According to Huang, the idea that the two economies can be cleanly separated does not survive close scrutiny. He notes that attempts to decouple for political or security reasons ignore basic realities.
“And that the idea of decoupling is naive. And the idea of decoupling for whatever reason, philosophical reasons or national security reasons, it’s just not based on any common sense. And the more deeply you look into it, the more the two countries are actually highly coupled.”
Rather than separation, Huang calls for a more sophisticated approach.
“And I think there needs to be a nuanced strategy, a nuanced attitude about how to manage this relationship in a productive way for all of the people of two countries.”
Huang also addressed US export controls on advanced chips, saying recent policy reflects that nuance.
“I’m happy that the administration was able to suggest an export control policy that is grounded on national security, recognizing that [China] already make so many chips themselves, and they can depend on Huawei themselves for their military, for their national security.”
Last month, President Trump said he will permit Nvidia to sell its H200 artificial intelligence chips to China in a deal meant to preserve US dominance in AI while allowing chipmakers to generate additional revenue.
In Huang’s view, this reality limits the military value of American commercial technology exports.
“And so that American technology, although general purpose, is unlikely to be used by their military because their military is too smart, just as our military is too smart to use their technology. And so it’s grounded on national security. It’s grounded on technology leadership. It’s grounded on national prosperity.”
Huang’s comments underscore a growing view among tech leaders that managing US-China competition will require coexistence and careful calibration, not clean separation.
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