U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he believed Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who told him he had no idea a woman was an alleged Chinese spy, AFP reported.
Trump said the allegations had not come to his attention during the May China trip he made alongside Huang. He gave no date for when he learned of them, saying only it was “not too long ago.” Trump added that the FBI was looking into an issue he described as “something else.” The bureau did not say Monday whether his remark referred to an investigation involving Huang, AFP reported.
Huang’s Sunday message to Nvidia employees acknowledged the affair and included apologies to his family and company staff, AFP reported. AFP identified the woman as Alice Huang, a Chinese executive alleged to have shared information with Beijing.
The New York Times reported Oct. 29 that U.S. intelligence officials had assessed that a Chinese executive linked to Singapore-based data center company Megaspeed was passing information to Beijing. Trump said Oct. 31 that he would review the report, as EconoTimes reported in its earlier account of his response. That earlier coverage said Alice Huang is not related to Jensen Huang.
