
Alice Huang raises suspicions about belonging to China's Ministry of State Security's semiconductor team
According to Taiwan's Free Times, suspicions have been raised that Alice Huang, who is linked to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, was part of the semiconductor task force of China's Ministry of State Security and carried out lobbying and intelligence operations to ease U.S. export regulations to China.
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The United States and China are competing for hegemony in the AI and semiconductor fields, and the United States is strengthening regulations on semiconductor exports to China.
Suspicions have been raised that Alice Huang (Chinese name Huang Le), known as the affair partner of former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, was active as a member of the Chinese intelligence agency's semiconductor organization.
According to Taiwan's Free Times on the 13th (local time), citing recent information from the United States, the newspaper reported that the Central Office of the Communist Party of China has established a dedicated organization to secure an advantage in the competition for artificial intelligence (AI) hegemony with the United States.
It is reported that this organization includes the Central Science and Technology Commission of the Communist Party of China, the National Internet and Information Office, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of State Security, the United Front Work Department, and relevant departments of the People's Liberation Army.
The Free Times reported that its main activities include creating public opinion against the construction of data centers in the United States, lobbying for the relaxation of semiconductor export regulations, infiltrating supply chains not connected to China, and promoting internal conflict in American society.
In particular, it was reported that China's Ministry of State Security, which participates in this organization, has established an internal 'semiconductor team' and that Alice Huang is a member of this team.
The newspaper claimed that Alice Huang's main mission was to establish a paper company in a third country to secure cutting-edge semiconductors and high-performance servers, and to approach Jensen Huang and influence him to demand relaxation of U.S. semiconductor export regulations to China.
The Free Times reported that the U.S. also obtained information that Alice Huang was under direct command from China's Minister of State Security Chen Yixin.
In addition, suspicions were raised that China's Ministry of State Security has several female agents carrying out similar missions to Alice Huang, and that they are actively engaged in various activities at major U.S. technology companies.
The newspaper explained that they are responding to U.S. semiconductor export regulations while at the same time infiltrating supply chains that are not connected to China and policy-making systems in the U.S. and other countries.
Jayu Times said, “This is a threat that the entire democratic camp must be most wary of,” and added, “It shows that this kind of infiltration has already reached us.”
Previously, American media reported suspicions that Alice Huang was involved in the indirect supply of at least $7.5 billion (about 10 trillion won) worth of Nvidia AI semiconductors to Chinese companies by using her relationship with Jensen Huang.
However, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on the 12th that it has not yet reached a conclusion as to whether Alice Hwang was a spy.
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