Suspect it’s meant to say ‘didn’t know’ but the paragraphs of interest:
“The official said he did know if Yellen would raise the issue of the $69bn merger between chipmaker Broadcom and cloud software company VMware, which the companies delayed last week as they awaited regulatory approval from China.
The Financial Times reported that Beijing was considering holding up the deal in retaliation after the US tightened restrictions on the export to China of cutting-edge chips for artificial intelligence applications.”