China has denied claims that there was a spy plot targeting Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun denied all the claims that Alice Huang was working for Chinese intelligence on Monday. He told reporters, "We have already responded to this. The so-called claim of 'Chinese spies' is completely groundless and is nothing but a smear against China."
The Nvidia CEO has been under fire for several days after the New York Times published an article alleging that he was possibly having a romantic affair with Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, a businesswoman. They reported that US intelligence was probing Alice Huang’s alleged background as a Chinese spy.
The Global Times, a Chinese state-run newspaper, in a commentary on its website referred to the New York Times article about Huang’s extramarital affair with an alleged Chinese spy as ‘speculative.’
They also said that the reports and the media frenzy around the case were aimed at 'destabilising US-China relations' and that the accusations contained all the ingredients of a ‘political spy thriller’ with ‘no hard evidence to back up the central allegations’.
The piece also asks whether someone behind the scenes was pushing an agenda.
China had also previously denied a New York Times report which said that Huang developed a close relationship with a Chinese citizen whose company faced claimed of smuggling advanced chips into China.
George Chen, a partner and chair of digital practice at The Asia Group, a Washington-based consultancy, told AP, “The key questions are whether he was aware of any espionage activities and whether any confidential or strategically sensitive information was compromised.”
“Those questions require evidence rather than speculation,” he added.
