They were literally allowed to sell chips to the US branch of sanctioned Chinese companies. Same pattern as the tariff nonsense, not really opposed to any products or companies, just wants to bring all the production to the US instead. Plain protectionism, like the same car made in Germany is badly unfair, made in China is a national security risk, but once it's made in the US it's perfectly fine.
I thought this was like, basically an open secret? Like... I'm sure they stayed within the technical letter of the law? Except if any of the laws required them to not be grossy negligencent and avoid having a cartoonish level of naivety. So that they can pretend that they couldn't possibly have known that chips going to South East Asia were being resold to China?