Just when you thought the clowns running US foreign policy couldn’t get more detached from reality they’ve pulled another one out of their hats.

Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang basically told Washington: ban our AI chips in China and you’ll just drive customers straight into Huawei’s arms. What does the US do? Instead of rethinking their failed strategy they’ve now decided that to stop those very customers they created for Huawei they’ll just declare the global use of Ascend chips a violation of US law.

Since when did the US Congress become the world’s IT department dictating what hardware sovereign nations and private enterprises can run? Seriously? America, what in the actual hell gives you the right to dictate what a university in Germany or a startup in Brazil does with legally acquired hardware?

The BIS statement bleats about protecting “American AI technology” and keeping it from “adversaries,” while conveniently ignoring the fact that Huawei’s Ascend chips are a direct result of the US trying (and failing) to cut them off at the knees in the first place. They’re so terrified of Chinese AI models being trained on anything remotely competitive that they’ve decided to extend US law to the entire globe.

Next up: Will owning a Huawei phone become a US federal offense? it’s probably on some intern’s whiteboard at the Pentagon.

US “law,” especially when it comes to international tech, is just a fancy term for “whatever serves America’s interests this week.” It can be, and is, changed at will to punish competitors and reward toadies. The message from Washington is deafeningly clear: the rest of the world is expected to remain technologically subservient, happily consuming US-approved tech and never, ever challenging their dominance. This latest move against Huawei’s Ascend chips is a desperate attempt to stop the inevitable rise of a multipolar tech world.