Rock meet Hard Place.

Here's the problem with things like this: it's bad either way. If you ship the Chinese the technology, it gives them a strategic advantage. But NOT shipping them right now when the US isn't very capable of defending Taiwan where these chips are made only encourages the Chinese to assault Taiwan.

In related news, the Chinese have been buzzing Taiwan's airspace with recon drones and Taiwan yesterday was forced to fire on one of them. Add to that the denial by the Solomon Islands to a US ship to port.. Escalation is happening quick.