Trump, who is surrounded by Jensen Huang, is also a test… Suspicion of condoning an affair with a Chinese spy grows?

(Washington = Yonhap News) Correspondent Hong Jeong-gyu = As U.S. President Donald Trump went around protecting Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who had an affair with a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy, an analysis was raised that President Trump himself was being tested on national security issues.

The American daily Wall Street Journal (WSJ) stated on the 9th (local time) that CEO Hwang's affair was "not a simple extramarital affair" and that this was because the affair involved a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy.

He continued, "CEO Hwang is probably President Trump's closest advisor in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), and AI is at the core of the White House's economic and national security strategy."

Jensen Hwang's affair partner was Alice Hwang, a former executive at Megaspeed International, a Singaporean data center company. She has been under surveillance by U.S. intelligence authorities on suspicion of approaching CEO Hwang to collect advanced AI semiconductor secrets and U.S. administration trends.

Earlier, regarding CEO Hwang's affair the previous day, President Trump said, "I know he's a fine person, but no one knows what's going on," and added, "I hope everything works out well. He's done amazing things, so I think he's definitely a great person."

However, WSJ diagnosed that “the Jensen Huang scandal has put President Trump to the test.”

The newspaper said, "US officials concluded that this woman (Alice Huang) was sharing information with Chinese intelligence agencies while cooperating with NVIDIA to build a data center," adding, "CEO Hwang has had a voice in major policy processes related to the US government's most sensitive technology, and the US' AI strategy is a very large area of ​​China's strategy."

The New York Times (NYT), which first reported the close relationship between CEO Hwang and Alice Hwang last month, raised suspicions in an article at the time that President Trump tolerated the report without taking any action even after receiving a report on suspicions of Chinese espionage about a year ago.

President Trump developed a special relationship with CEO Hwang after the launch of the second administration, and CEO Hwang often attended White House events.

When the deceleration theory that the pace of AI development should be slowed emerged in Silicon Valley, President Trump contacted CEO Hwang, and CEO Hwang publicly supported President Trump's theory of accelerated AI development.

CEO Hwang was also one of the US tech entrepreneurs who received the most prestigious medal in the field of science and technology from President Trump last October.

In relation to this, the WSJ reported that when President Trump awarded CEO Hwang a medal, many officials within the Trump administration were aware of the suspicions of an affair between CEO Hwang and Alice Hwang.

At the same time, he pointed out, "Key Republican members of the U.S. Congress sent a letter to CEO Hwang demanding a response, and President Trump may soon face a situation where he has to provide additional explanations about when and what he knew regarding this issue."

U.S. online media Axios also noted that CEO Hwang accompanied the U.S.-China summit held in Beijing, China in May even after President Trump was aware of the suspicions.

At the time, CEO Hwang was not included in the list of businesspeople visiting China originally announced by the White House, but joined late. There were also reports that CEO Hwang, who was not on board the U.S. presidential plane Air Force One when it took off to visit China, boarded Air Force One in Alaska.

When asked the day before whether he would accompany CEO Hwang on his trip to the Philippines and China in the middle of this month, President Trump responded, "I don't know, but I will definitely take him with me. I haven't heard that he did anything wrong."