Apple is actively lobbying the Trump administration for permission to procure memory chips from China's ChangXin Memory Technologies—a company currently on the U.S. blacklist—in a bid to ease the financial burden posed by memory costs. However, this initiative has encountered resistance from political circles in the United States, where there are concerns that such a move might undermine the U.S.'s supply chain security strategy and disrupt its strategic布局 (layout, here referring to strategic planning or positioning) in the AI competition. Meanwhile, China is calling on the U.S. to cease its unwarranted suppression and protect the lawful rights and interests of Chinese enterprises.
