民主党人计划推动更严格的芯片出口管制措施，此前有消息称英伟达将调查其首席执行官与一名涉嫌中国间谍的婚外情。文/阿里·霍金斯 国会复会，英伟达成了“菜单”上的主角。
Democrats plan to push tougher chip export control measures following news that Nvidia will investigate its CEO over his affair with a suspected Chinese spy. By Ari Hawkins Congress is back, and Nvidia’s on the menu.
英伟达董事会将在首席执行官黄仁勋据报成为中国间谍活动目标后对其展开调查，这一消息将激活国会山限制其对华出口的努力，并加快国会对这家人工智能巨头的审查。
News that the chipmaker’s board will investigate CEO Jensen Huang after he was reportedly the target of Chinese espionage is set to energize Capitol Hill efforts to restrict its exports to China and accelerate congressional scrutiny of the AI giant.
“美国应立即暂停向中国出货先进人工智能芯片，直到我们弄清这一事件真相，并确保国家安全未受损害，”众议院外交委员会前主席、众议员迈克尔·麦考尔（共和党-得克萨斯州）周日在《福克斯新闻周日》节目中说。
“The U.S. should immediately pause the shipment of advanced AI chips to China until we can get to the bottom of this incident and ensure our national security is not being undermined,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the former chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said on The fallout is also being felt in the Trump administration, where disagreement over the chip exports question has been simmering.
余波也波及特朗普政府，该政府内部在芯片出口问题上的分歧一直在酝酿。这些披露将考验特朗普与黄仁勋的紧密关系。
The revelations are set to test Trump’s tight relationship with Huang.
在周日的声明之前，英伟达本已将在跛脚鸭会期与国会交锋，得益于一项两党合作，旨在将芯片出口管制附加到必须通过的年度国防法案上。现在，据两名知情助手透露，他们获准匿名讨论此事，支持该政策的民主党人计划推动更严格的限制。
Before Sunday’s announcement, Nvidia was already set to face off with Congress during the lame-duck session, thanks to a bipartisan effort to attach chip export controls to the annual, must-pass defense package. Now, according to two aides with knowledge of the talks and granted anonymity to discuss them, Democrats in favor of the policy plan to push for even tougher limits.
其中一名助手表示，中期选举结果清楚地表明，选民希望国会对该政府发挥制衡作用。
One of the aides said the midterm election results were a clear signal that voters want Congress to act as a check on this administration.
“在这个问题上一直担心得罪白宫的共和党人知道，如果他们现在不达成协议，下一个版本将由民主党人撰写，”此人说。
“Republicans who’ve been nervous about crossing the White House on this know the next version gets written by Democrats if they don’t deal now,” the person said.
参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦（民主党-马萨诸塞州）有望在下届国会担任参议院银行委员会主席，牵头处理该问题，她是这项努力最直言不讳的支持者之一，周日在哥伦比亚广播公司节目中表示，委员会内部存在“实质性的两党支持”。
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who is poised to lead on the issue in the next Congress as chair of the Senate Banking panel, is among the most vocal backers of the effort and said Sunday on CBS that there is “substantial bipartisan support” on the committee.
英伟达一直在游说特朗普政府放宽出口管制。该公司一直要求政府向立法者施压，推迟在年度国防法案中通过严格的出口限制。
Nvidia has been lobbying the Trump administration to pare back the export controls. The company has been asking the administration to pressure lawmakers to hold off on enacting strict export restrictions in the annual defense bill.
正如一位共和党国会助手对《政治新闻网》（POLITICO）所说，反映了共和党对特朗普与黄仁勋关系亲密的不满：“英伟达已经习惯通过白宫让事情按他们的意愿发展。”
As one Republican Hill aide put it to POLITICO, echoing GOP frustration with the cozy dynamic between Trump and Huang: “Nvidia has gotten very used to getting their way through the White House.”
特朗普周日为英伟达首席执行官辩护，告诉记者他没有就此事与黄仁勋交谈，但认为他是一位“优秀的人选”。在幕后，特朗普政府官员就允许英伟达自由向中国市场销售是有助于美国在人工智能领域保持主导地位，还是构成风险存在分歧。一位政府官员和另一位接近讨论的人士表示，这起丑闻将加深这种分歧。
Trump on Sunday defended the Nvidia CEO, telling reporters that he hadn’t spoken to Huang about the situation but considers him a “fine person.”Behind the scenes, there is a rift among Trump administration officials over whether allowing Nvidia to sell freely to the Chinese market supports U.S. dominance in artificial intelligence or poses a risk. An administration official and another person close to the discussions said the scandal is poised to deepen the disagreement.
这位政府官员说，总统关心“贸易逆差等问题，但并不以同样的方式对待高端技术竞争，也不通过国家安全的视角来看待这种关系”，并补充说，黄仁勋卷入的所谓间谍活动核心事件，“无论多么耸人听闻”，都不会改变这一点。白宫未回应置评请求。
The president cares about “issues like the trade deficit but does not treat the high-end tech race the same way or see the relationship through a national security lens," said the administration official, who added that Huang’s affair at the heart of the alleged espionage, “no matter how salacious,” won’t change that. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.