BEIJING: Beijing accused the United States on Thursday of using spurious espionage claims as a pretext to impose a technological “blockade” on China, following allegations that Nvidia boss Jensen Huang was the target of a Chinese espionage plot.
“China’s technological progress is driven by independent innovation and open cooperation. The US side should stop fabricating such ‘spy’ narratives as a pretext for imposing a technological blockade,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told a regular briefing.
Huang, who co-founded Nvidia and turned it into the world’s leading supplier of chips that power artificial intelligence (AI), has admitted to having an extramarital affair, reportedly with Alice Huang.
