Chip Security Act Emerges -- The Rule the US Is Trying to Change: On May 15, 2025, the US House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party introduced the Chip Security Act -- containing the strong will to fundamentally block advanced US AI chips from falling into the hands of geopolitical competitors including China. The Chip Security Act provisions: mandatory location tracking and remote monitoring capabilities in all advanced AI chips exported; hardware-level kill switches enabling US government to disable chips found in restricted destinations; enhanced end-user verification requirements before export license approval; criminal penalties for chip smuggling and circumvention. The strategic context: US export controls on H100, H200, and A100 chips have been circumvented through third-country routing (chips shipped to Malaysia, Singapore, or UAE and then re-exported to China); the Chip Security Act attempts to make circumvention technically impossible rather than just legally prohibited; the hardware-level approach acknowledges that paper export controls are insufficient against well-resourced state actors. The privacy and trust implications: requiring location tracking and kill switches in commercial chips raises questions about what foreign governments (including US allies) would accept in their infrastructure; a chip that the US government can disable is potentially a chip that is a geopolitical dependency.