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Donald Trump will not raise allegations that a Chinese spy had an affair with Nvidia’s CEO when he meets with Chinese leader Xi Jinping next week, US officials said.
The US president is expected to meet Xi next Thursday in Shenzhen as part of a trip to Asia, which will also include a trilateral meeting between Trump, Xi and Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Nvidia founder Jensen Huang resigned this week following revelations that he had an affair with a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy. The woman, Alice Huang, was an executive at Nvidia customer Megaspeed.
“I don’t expect the president to raise the issue of Alice Huang,” a US official said.
The FT reported that Howard Lutnick’s Commerce Department had delayed efforts to add Megaspeed to Washington’s blacklist of companies the United States considers a national security risk. Inclusion on the list would require companies to obtain licenses to export chips.
On Friday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said his department has been “supportive” of adding Megaspeed to the list “for months.”
Nvidia chips are used to train the most advanced AI models from labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic, and restricting their export to U.S. adversaries is seen as key to maintaining America’s technological advantage.
A second U.S. official said “the situation with Nvidia shouldn’t really impact travel.”
“In all of our discussions and negotiations with the Chinese, we do not negotiate U.S. export controls,” the official said. “These are national security issues that we are developing through the interagency administrative process, and we do not expect them to feature in any of our conversations with the Chinese while we are there.”
Although officials said they did not expect a business delegation to accompany Trump on his trip to China as part of the U.S. delegation, SpaceX and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk will accompany the president to China.
Officials said Trump was expected to discuss nuclear weapons reduction with Xi and Putin, but that Musk would not attend the leaders’ meetings and that no “detailed discussions” about his Starlink service were expected.
Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that the Ukrainian military was once again experiencing significant disruptions to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite service, hampering efforts to intercept Russian drones.
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