An emergency meeting betwen <sic> the pair was subsequently scheduled, and it took place yesterday. As is typical for Trump, he has now back-pedaled and was full of praise for Tan, saying on his Truth Social network: “The meeting was a very interesting one. His success and rise is an amazing story.”

And then toward the end:

It isn’t known what the Intel chief said to change Trump’s mind, but it fits a pattern of US tech bosses queuing up to flatter the President in exchange for concessions, while kickbacks now seem to be official government policy following the news that Nvidia and AMD will be allowed to resume sales of their GPU products to China in exchange for 15 percent of the revenue earned being paid to Washington.

TACO, flattery, and such it seems. Despite the original concerns which I thought the felon suggested were alarming.