China responds to Nvidia spying allegations by saying, “US should stop looking for excuses to block technology”

Ministry of Foreign Affairs “US fabricates ‘spy narrative’… Close communication with US regarding summit exchanges”

When asked about 'Jensen Huang's affair partner staying in Beijing', he replied, "I don't know the situation."

(Beijing = Yonhap News) Correspondent Jeong Seong-jo = Amid continued suspicion that the person singled out in the affair scandal of US Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is a person linked to Chinese intelligence agencies, the Chinese government demanded that the United States stop its attempts to block Chinese science and technology.

When asked at a briefing on the 12th how the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs would respond if this issue, which arose ahead of the U.S.-China summit, leads to restrictions on U.S. exports of high-tech technology to China, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maoning said, "China's progress in science and technology is driven by independent innovation and open cooperation," and added, "The United States must stop seeking an excuse to implement a science and technology blockade by making up so-called 'espionage' narratives."

Spokesperson Mao said, "China and the United States maintain close communication regarding the exchanges between the two leaders. We are willing to work with the United States to implement the important agreements between the two leaders and promote the establishment of a constructive strategic and stable relationship between China and the United States based on respect, fairness and equality."

As the 'Chinese spy theory' attracted attention after CEO Jensen Huang admitted to having an affair on the 8th (local time), China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has completely denied the allegations, labeling them as slander.

Alice Huang (Chinese name: Huang Le), known as CEO Huang's affair partner, has claimed to be an executive at Megaspeed International, a cloud computing company headquartered in Singapore, but is in fact believed by U.S. intelligence agencies to be a spy for the National Security Agency, China's intelligence agency.

Megaspeed is known to have purchased at least $4.6 billion (about 6.8 trillion won) worth of Nvidia chips. Through this, there is also the possibility that it was used as a channel to bypass regulations on the export of advanced semiconductors made in the United States by Chinese companies.

As attention is focused on CEO Hwang's scandal, circumstances are coming to light that institutions on the U.S. blacklist, including Chinese military-affiliated universities, have purchased Nvidia's high-performance semiconductors.

According to Reuters, Shibei University of Technology, famous for Chinese military technology research, purchased two NVIDIA H200 chips for 874,700 yuan (about 175.95 million won) last month. H200 is one of NVIDIA's highest-performance chips used to train and run advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems and is subject to export approval in the United States. This also shows that Chinese organizations linked to the military are securing American AI computing resources through suppliers in China.

When asked about the issue of purchasing H200 chips from Shibei University of Technology, spokesperson Maoning said, "I am not aware of the specific situation," but added, "China's position on the issue of U.S. semiconductor exports to China is consistent. At the same time, we firmly oppose the U.S. generalizing the concept of national security and unfairly suppressing Chinese institutions by creating a discriminatory list for various reasons."

Spokesperson Mao did not answer questions about foreign media reports that Alice Huang had returned to her home country of China and was currently staying in Beijing, saying, "I do not know the situation you (the reporter) mentioned."