Fox News host Jessica Tarlov issued a grave warning Wednesday about President Donald Trump's Asia trip during a new broadcast of "The Five" on Wednesday.
Trump is traveling in Asia this week, where he is expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping to negotiate a trade deal over rare earth minerals that are used to build semiconductors. Tarlov warned that Trump may allow China to purchase powerful semiconductors from NVIDIA in exchange for China purchasing more soybeans from American farmers.
China stopped purchasing soybeans from American farmers in May after Trump imposed new tariffs on the country, according to reports. Instead, the country began buying soybeans from Argentina, which has caused the market for American soybeans to nearly collapse.
NVIDIA is also currently prohibited from selling its most powerful Blackwell semiconductor chips to Chinese firms, which has allowed the U.S. to maintain an advantage over China in developing artificial intelligence technologies.
"This trip, overall, is about Trump coming hat-in-hand to China and saying, 'Will you please buy our soybeans again?'" Tarlov said.
"The tariffs with China have created a huge amount of pain for Americans, especially for our farmers, and what I'm really worried about, and we will see what deal actually gets done, is that he is teasing the fact that he may allow them to buy NVIDIA chips," Tarlov continued.
Tarlov added that the Blackwell chips are estimated to be 20 times more powerful than any other chip on the market.
"So people should be very scared about the fact that he is considering that to be one of the concessions for us to do a trade deal with them," she added.
