Jensen Huang’s Defense of China Under Scrutiny After Alleged Spy Affair
In an interview less than a month ago, Huang talked of the "importance of engaging the Chinese markets".
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defended his company's engagement with China in a recent interview, amid an internal probe into allegations that he had an affair with a woman allegedly found to be a Chinese spy by U.S. officials. Huang criticized U.S. chip restrictions on China in an October interview, praising a December 2025 decision by former President Donald Trump to allow Nvidia to sell advanced AI chips to Chinese customers, though other restrictions persist.
Huang admitted, "We made a mistake. And this mistake is hard to unwind," but maintained that China is not an enemy and that the U.S. and China share the goal of being successful and prosperous. The company is investigating if Huang was a target of a foreign intelligence operation. The Chinese Embassy in the U.S. dismissed the allegations as unsubstantiated smears.
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