
Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs refutes Wall Street Journal report on Huang Le's involvement in Chinese espionage activities
Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs refuted the Wall Street Journal report, denying that it was investigating Huang Le, a friend of Huida CEO Huang Yanxun and a senior executive of Megaspeed International, and emphasized that the government had not expressed concerns about the relationship between the two or suspected that he was a Chinese intelligence informant.
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The Wall Street Journal reported that officials in the United States, Taiwan, and Singapore are concerned that the relationship between Huang Renxun and Huang Le may lead to Beijing obtaining AI chip information.
Singapore has denied it is investigating a Chinese female executive reportedly close to Huida Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang and dismissed a Wall Street Journal report that authorities there were "concerned" about potential Chinese espionage.
A report published by The Wall Street Journal on the 30th of last month stated that officials in the United States, Taiwan and Singapore were "increasingly concerned" about the relationship between Huang and Huang Le, also known as Alice Huang, a senior executive of Singapore data center company Megaspeed International.
The report stated that the relationship between the two "may" allow "Beijing to obtain information about the world's most valuable artificial intelligence (AI) chips."
Agence France-Presse reported that Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs stated over the weekend that its government and officials had not expressed doubts about Huang Le's relationship with Huang Jen-Hsun, nor did they suspect that she was a Chinese intelligence informant.
Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs issued a statement on the 31st of last month: "The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources, that Singaporean officials were concerned about Huang's close contacts with NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, or that she was suspected of being a Chinese intelligence informant, and had separately investigated her relationship with China."
The statement emphasized: "We would like to clarify that neither the Singapore government nor officials have said such things, nor have any such investigations been conducted against Huang Le."

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