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The Nvidia scandal turns into a reckoning at the top of the American state: the Minister of Finance publicly accuses his colleague of Commerce
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US Finance Minister Scott Bessent publicly challenged his Commerce counterpart, Howard Lutnick, on Friday, following the discovery of alleged deliveries of latest-generation Nvidia chips to China. He criticizes his department for not having blocked exports to
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