"Don't sell to China" spells it out in a way that doesn't allow for such misinterpretations. It's not hard to fit the "spirit" into the description. It's likely fewer words than whatever they made a hash of in the first place.

Expecting a US tech company to not behave as per the uber-capitalism that defines almost everything else about how the country is run is just weirdly, unexpectedly naive.

The US government has been pretty clear why they are doing this and the purpose of the “chip war”.

Nvidia and other businesses have been handed an olive branch but allowing them to sell things the US government considers inconsequential to China to make a few bucks. If Nvidia decides to abuse this privilege, the olive branch might just get taken back.

I would disagree. Our form of classical liberalism requires those wielding the baton of power to do a better job. The state serves the individual.

Private enterprises anticipating the political needs of a central government was a tenet of Mussolini’s economic fascism and has no place in American political discourse.