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Advanced chips and China: the sanctions that capital circumvents

Episode Advanced chips and China: the sanctions that capital circumvents

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US sanctions on advanced chip exports have restricted hardware while leaving capital flows unrestricted, financing Chinese AI development through Hong Kong. Moonshot AI trained its flagship Kimi K3 model on 20,000 Nvidia H200 accelerators via Alibaba's cloud and plans a Hong Kong IPO worth up to 5 billion dollars coordinated by major Western banks. This analysis examines the episode as a permanent reallocation of technological sovereignty with three capital allocation implications at 12, 24 and 36 months.

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