>The export ban does not make sense. In fact, it is counterproductive because it closes a huge market to Nvidia and makes China less reliant on US Tech - forcing them to accelerate development of homegrown GPU business.

Could you tell China this? Because they seem to not agree at all, given what we are seeing

As a Chinese I think that "banning NVIDIA GPU is good for China" is a consensus in our Internet. If companies keep buying gpus from NVIDIA (actually not NVIDIA, but through some gray areas), then demostic GPU industry will be surpresse. You can check Bilibili or other main-stream platforms for this consensus. Honestly I support banning NVIDIA since SuperPod（超节点 in Chinese）will thrives for that.