My read: many American AI companies don't want China to succeed.

JH was an advocate for selling to China (affairs aside, he wants to sell as much to as many people as possible).

With a new legislation coming in, it is quite possible they'll try to get the Biden ban on selling to China back in some place. And now, JH can't advocate selling to China without being seen as a Chinese stooge who got played by a spy (whether that's true or not is irrelevant, perception here is what is important)