Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's nothing in this about hiring consultants for money. Read it again. This is about export of technology, which you are doing whenever you post open source implementations of RISC-V technology online. The lawmakers are explicitly concerned that chinese technology companies benefit whenever a US person shares designs or code online. They are specifically, explicitly seeking that all allied countries be able to fr…
Didn't they removed crypto export controls because they had other means to achieve the same outcome?
a big part of it was that it was abundantly clear that US companies were going to fall behind the rest of the world
everyone else could use encryption to provide secure products, and US vendors couldn't