Ridiculing Huang Renxun for daring to sell chips to the People’s Liberation Army WSJ: Trump administration officials have long had concerns but were ignored

CEO of NvidiaJen-Hsun Huang Has had direct access to the President of the United States for the past two yearstrump And it has a huge impact on US artificial intelligence (AI) policy. However, even with so much power, he was unable to stop the scandal of an extramarital affair with a suspected Chinese intelligence source from growing, and now Huida’s board of directors has also begun preparations to remove him as CEO.

The Wall Street Journal reported on the 11th that before Trump returned to the White House, there was basically a consensus between the two parties in the United States to prevent Huida’s high-end chips from promoting China’s AI development. However, Huang Renxun immediately began lobbying to try to convince Trump and his team that it is more important for China and other countries to continue to rely on American chips. Some Trump administration officials have been uneasy about Huang’s China stance from the beginning, but as his influence has grown in Silicon Valley and Washington, these concerns have been ignored.

Huang began lobbying months before Trump took office, during which time he established a close relationship with the then-President-elect. If Huida can further expand the Chinese market, it is expected to get huge profits. However, Huang Renxun’s active lobbying style has also caused some US officials to question his intentions. However, many of these executives may not have known at the time that Huang was having an extramarital affair with Alice Huang, a senior executive at a Huida client company and a suspected Chinese intelligence source.

Following Huang’s first White House meeting in Trump’s second term, a group of advisers gathered to discuss concerns raised by his push to sell more chips to China. According to people familiar with the matter, some Trump advisers believe Huang advocates dishonest actions against China that harm US national security. One of them even joked that Huang would also sell chips directly to the Chinese people as long as the government allowed.People’s Liberation Army .

Despite warnings from relevant White House officials, they had little effect and Huang has maintained direct communications with Trump. His allies within the administration, including White House AI adviser David Sachs and Commerce Secretary Lutnick, also helped bolster his standing with Trump and take action against officials who criticized him.

After Trump dismissed several members of the National Security Council in April 2025, Huang Renxun faced less resistance within the government. The report reported that several officials at the National Security Council, the State Department, and the Commerce Department, responsible for export controls, who raised concerns about the chip policy were either marginalized or left the government.

In July 2025, Huang went to Beijing with a major victory: Huida was about to resume deliveries of H20 chips to Chinese customers, reversing a restrictive policy that he had publicly criticized as unfair. After Huang Renxun’s meeting with Trump, she finally got her wish. Chinese negotiators saw Trump’s decision as a goodwill gesture in trade talks, but some Trump administration officials were concerned. Officials wary of China view Trump’s decision to accede to Huida’s demands as dangerous, according to people familiar with the matter.

Treasury Secretary Besant, Secretary of State Rubio and some staffers responsible for trade and national security affairs under U.S. Trade Representative Greer have privately spoken with think tank researchers who specialize in China and companies doing business with China to understand Huang Renxun’s ties to China, according to people familiar with the matter. Another person familiar with the matter said this information is sometimes sent to the White House. However, national security concerns still weigh on Huang’s views in some cases. Rubio and other senior advisers successfully convinced Trump not to allow Huida to export more powerful Blackwell chips to China.

People familiar with the matter revealed that senior officials, including Rubio and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Ratcliffe, knew about the details of Huang’s extramarital affair as early as 2025 and that Trump was also briefed on the relevant situation. However, the Trump administration has neither blacklisted Huang’s company, MegaSpeed, nor restricted Huang’s influence. Beijing denies that Huang Le is a spy. Trump said earlier this week that he had spoken to Jen-Hsun Huang, who told him he did not know Huang was involved in espionage activities. Huida did not respond to inquiries.

After Jen-Hsun Huang’s extramarital affair was exposed, the original doubts about the China policy stance of some Trump administration officials became more urgent. Joel Thayer, senior AI adviser at the conservative think tank America First Policy Institute, opposes the export of chips to China. He said, “The loyalty of these multinational companies is to their shareholders, not to any particular country. We cannot consider them custodians of national security.”