美国财政部长斯科特·贝森特周五指责商务部，因政府未能制裁新加坡数据中心公司 Megaspeed（迈速）。他表示，其他部门数月来一直推动将该公司列入名为“实体清单”的贸易黑名单，但商务部“掌握决定权”。贝森特周五在 CNBC 节目中表示，财政部、国防部、国务院和美国贸易代表办公室都支持将 Megaspeed 列入实体清单，但商务部负责行使这一权力。
Bessent Faults Commerce Dept. for Failing to Blacklist Megaspeed The Treasury secretary blamed the department for not sanctioning the Singaporean firm and said that Nvidia employees should be held accountable if they sidestepped the law. Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, blamed the Commerce Department on Friday for the government’s failure to sanction the Singaporean data center firm Megaspeed, saying that other departments had pushed for the measure but that Commerce “has the pen.”The Treasury, Defense and State Departments and the U.S. trade representative were all in favor of putting Megaspeed on a trade blacklist called the entity list for months, but the Commerce Department is in charge of that authority, Mr. Bessent said on CNBC on Friday.
“你得去问问他们的内部流程，”他说，并补充道，“财政部和我的副手一直在副部长层面推动此事数月。”
“You will have to ask them about their internal processes,” he said, adding, “Treasury and my deputy has been pushing for this for months at the deputies level.”
“这里真正的故事应该是：英伟达是否了解其客户，英伟达是否做出了强有力的努力，确保没有技术外泄，并确保他们销售给的显然是空壳转手公司？”他说，“我认为重要的是，公司内部相关人员应为此承担责任。” 因 Megaspeed 问题，政府内部和国会山的挫败感正在升温。美国情报机构认定，这家由一名女性领导的公司是中国政府的资产。
“The real story here should be: Did Nvidia know their client, and was there a robust effort at Nvidia to make sure that there was no leakage and that they were selling to what were obviously pass-through shell companies?” he said. “I think it’s important that anyone at the company there be held accountable for that.”Frustration is boiling over within the administration and on Capitol Hill about Megaspeed, the company led by a woman U.S. intelligence deemed to be an asset for the Chinese government.
这名女性是爱丽丝·黄，她与英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋有过一段关系。因这一关系及另一段婚外情曝光，黄仁勋于周四辞去公司职务，导致公司股价暴跌。
The woman, Alice Huang, had a relationship with Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang. Mr. Huang resigned from his company on Thursday in the wake of revelations about that and another affair, sending the company’s stock price cratering.
商务部长霍华德·卢特尼克在最近几个月里，因技术出口问题频繁与其他官员发生冲突，该问题由商务部负责监管。他主张对全面出口限制保持谨慎，并建议采取更精准的行动，因此遭到政府内部其他人士和国会议员的指责，认为商务部与英伟达及黄仁勋关系过于密切。
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has frequently clashed with other officials in recent months over technology exports, which his department oversees. He has urged caution on sweeping export restrictions and recommended more surgical action, drawing accusations from others in the administration and in Congress that his department has become too cozy with Nvidia and Mr. Huang.
《纽约时报》周三报道，贝森特上周就卢特尼克处理“Megaspeed”公司一事与其发生对质，要求解释为何美国尚未禁止向该公司销售先进人工智能芯片。知情人士透露，卢特尼克表示将迅速采取行动，对“Megaspeed”实施限制。
The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Mr. Bessent had confronted Mr. Lutnick last week over his handling of Megaspeed, demanding to know why the United States had not already banned sales of advanced A.I. chips to the firm. Mr. Lutnick said he would move quickly to put restrictions on Megaspeed in place, people briefed on the exchange said.
知情人士称，将“Megaspeed”列入黑名单的举措此前曾在内阁副部长级别的会议上讨论过，商务部次长杰弗里·凯斯勒推迟了采取行动，称该决定权在于卢特尼克。
The move to blacklist Megaspeed had been discussed earlier at a meeting of the deputies of cabinet officials, where Jeffrey Kessler, an under secretary in the Commerce Department, deferred on taking action, saying that the decision was up to Mr. Lutnick, the people said.
商务部发言人否认贝森特与卢特尼克之间的对话曾发生。她表示，是否将公司列入实体清单的决定是全政府层面的决定。财政部未予置评。
A spokeswoman for the Commerce Department denied that the conversation between Mr. Bessent and Mr. Lutnick took place. She said that the decision about whether to add companies to the entity list was an administration-wide one. The Treasury Department did not comment.
贝森特周五质疑黄仁勋和英伟达对“Megaspeed”业务的知情程度，并暗示如果英伟达缺乏足够的监管，应当承担责任。
Mr. Bessent questioned on Friday what Mr. Huang and Nvidia had known about Megaspeed’s business, and suggested that Nvidia should be held accountable if it did not have adequate oversight.
“Megaspeed”购买英伟达芯片在东南亚建立数据中心，为中国客户提供服务，这利用了美国出口管制中的一个法律漏洞。特朗普政府和国会一直在权衡制定规则以打击此类业务。政府还在调查“Megaspeed”涉嫌将部分英伟达芯片走私入中国，违反美国法律。
Megaspeed bought Nvidia chips to set up data centers in Southeast Asia that serve Chinese clients, a legal loophole in U.S. export controls. Both the Trump administration and Congress have been weighing rules to crack down on that business. The government was also investigating Megaspeed for allegedly smuggling some Nvidia chips into China, in violation of U.S. law.
贝森特表示：“系统中存在大量漏洞，我们正在持续努力堵住这些漏洞。”
“There is a lot of leakage in the system, and we are constantly working to close that down,” Mr. Bessent said.
Ana Swanson 为《纽约时报》报道贸易和国际经济，驻华盛顿。她从事新闻工作已超过十年。
Ana Swanson covers trade and international economics for The Times and is based in Washington. She has been a journalist for more than a decade.