I see. The following two statements (headlines) stand out:

* We should not sell powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China

* We should crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations

That's not quite a ban of local ML inference, but it basically says that he doesn't want companies in China to create their own state of the art models.

No; it's the other headline, mandatory US government certification, that would ban Americans from running their own Chinese large models.