If Huang Renxun visits China with Trump next week, former US Vice President Pence’s Chief of Staff: It will be a very serious mistake

Huida CEO Jen-Hsun Huang confessed to having an extramarital affair with suspected Chinese spy Alice Huang. Marc Short, chief of staff to former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and chairman of the conservative think tank Advancing American Democracy (AAF), said that it would be a very serious mistake for Huang to go to Shenzhen, China, with President Trump to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Summit next week.

In an interview with the Bloomberg TV program "Balance of Power" on the 9th, Short said that Huang's scandal was shocking and that China had successfully prompted the Trump administration to change its stance on export controls, and Congress was expected to launch an investigation.

Short pointed out that Jen-Hsun Huang should not have traveled to China with Trump, and bluntly stated that it would be a very serious mistake for Jen-Hsun Huang to accompany Trump's delegation to China when Jen-Hsun Huang is deeply involved in the scandal of his affair with a female spy, and the FBI and Huida's board of directors have launched independent investigations.

In response to Trump's support for Huang, Short pointed out that Trump is very good at shifting the focus of public opinion. Trump's recent cabinet appointments, such as the announcement of Stephen Miller as White House chief of staff, and his statements on major news events, are all designed to quickly divert the outside world's attention from the Republican Party's midterm election defeat.

Short also emphasized that since the U.S.-China chip war and the competition for AI leadership have become highly politicized, the Huang Jen-Hsun incident will make it more difficult for the U.S. government and opposition parties to reach rational cross-party compromises when dealing with China's technology export control policies, and may even prompt Congress to impose stricter review pressure on technology giants such as Huida.

Huang Jen-Hsun sent an internal letter to employees on the 8th, admitting to cheating on his wife of 41 years and publicly apologizing. But the matter immediately escalated into a national security crisis, as U.S. intelligence agencies accused Huang Le, his affair partner and a former Chinese executive of Singapore data center operator Megaspeed, who had been recruited by China's Ministry of State Security as a spy. He was suspected of collecting sensitive information on U.S. high-tech and semiconductor control through his close relationship with Huang Renxun.

Although Trump immediately supported Huang Renxun, saying that he believed Huang Renxun's "complete ignorance" of the woman being a spy, he was still willing to continue to take Huang Renxun with him on his upcoming visit to China. But this move caused a strong shock in the Washington political circles.

However, Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reported on the 10th that Trump will lead a delegation to attend the APEC Leaders' Summit in Shenzhen next week. The delegation will include Tesla CEO Musk, Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach and other senior corporate executives. Huang Renxun had considered joining, but because he was involved in an affair with a female spy, whether he will continue to accompany him is full of variables. But Trump has not yet removed Huang from the delegation.