Is Huang Renxun in trouble? The U.S. Congress sent a letter asking him to personally explain his relationship with a female spy

In response to the incident in which a Chinese female executive with close ties to NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is suspected of being a spy for Beijing, three Republican chairmen of the U.S. House of Representatives committees have asked Jen-Hsun Huang to attend a closed-door briefing to explain their relationship.

According to investigative reports by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal last week, Huang Le (also known as Alice Huang), a Chinese former senior executive of Singapore data center company Megaspeed, is suspected of providing intelligence to the Chinese government and helping to transfer Huida's advanced artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China. U.S. officials identified her as a Chinese intelligence asset last year.

"CNBC" reported that these Republican congressmen stated in a letter sent to Huang Renxun released on Thursday (5th) that they wanted to know about Huang Renxun's interaction with Huang Le, as well as Huida's "security regulations to prevent espionage activities by foreign hostile forces."

The letter sent to Jen-Hsun Huang was written by Representative Brian Mast, Republican of Florida, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Representative Brian Mast, Republican of Michigan, chairman of the Special Committee on China. John Moolenaar, and Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ark., chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

These lawmakers invited Huang Jen-Hsun to attend a joint briefing in person on November 18, and Huida is scheduled to announce its third-quarter financial results on November 17.

"The issue of China's acquisition of these sensitive U.S. technologies is at the core of the investigative work of our three committees in this Congress. It is critical that Congress determine the extent of the threat to U.S. national security," the committee chairs wrote in the letter.

When CNBC asked Huida what he thought of the letter and whether Huang would attend the briefing proposed by lawmakers, Huida did not respond directly.

Huida instead provided a statement largely identical to the one previously provided to The New York Times. A spokesperson for Huida hinted in a statement that Huang Renxun's interaction with Huang Le was no different from Huang Renxun's meeting with senior executives of other corporate customers.

The spokesman for Huida said in a statement: "What our local cloud service customers obtain is general business information, not Huida's sensitive trade secrets, nor will they obtain any information related to national security." The spokesperson also said: "Meeting with customers is part of the CEO's job; Huang Jensen communicates with thousands of senior executives of customer companies every year. We believe that if the U.S. government believes that anyone poses a threat to U.S. industry, it will notify us."