President Donald Trump is expected to refrain from discussing allegations involving Jensen Huang, the former CEO of NVIDIA, during his upcoming summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
According to a report by Yonhap News on November 14, a U.S. government official told the Financial Times that "President Trump is not expected to raise the Alice Huang issue."
Alice Huang, a former executive at MegaSpeed, a Singaporean company that was a client of NVIDIA, has been implicated in an affair with Jensen Huang. U.S. intelligence agencies suspect that Alice Huang may have been recruited as a spy by Chinese intelligence.
There are also allegations that MegaSpeed circumvented U.S. export control regulations to ship NVIDIA semiconductors to China. Reports indicate that the U.S. Department of Commerce delayed the process of adding MegaSpeed to its list of companies subject to export controls, raising questions about the accountability of Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo.
However, U.S. officials maintain that the NVIDIA-related allegations are a separate matter from the U.S.-China summit.
Another U.S. official stated, "The NVIDIA situation should not affect this visit," adding that issues related to U.S. export controls will not be on the negotiation table during discussions with China.
The official explained that export controls are determined through interagency consultations and that there will be no discussions on related matters during the trip to China.
This stance underscores the Trump administration's intention not to use semiconductor export controls as leverage in negotiations with China while also seeking to avoid any burden from the allegations against Jensen Huang during the summit.
President Trump is scheduled to visit China from November 17 to 19 to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Shenzhen. He is expected to hold a bilateral meeting with President Xi on November 19, which will also include the first-ever trilateral summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
* This article has been translated by AI.
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