Beijing has accused the United States of using fabricated spying allegations as a pretext to impose a technological blockade against China.
The response follows US claims that Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang was the target of a Chinese espionage plot involving Alice Huang, a former executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed whom US officials suspect of working for Chinese intelligence.
“China’s technological progress is driven by independent innovation and open cooperation. The US side should stop fabricating such ‘spy’ narratives,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning stated during a regular briefing, dismissing the allegations as groundless speculation aimed at smearing Beijing.
The controversy surrounds Huang, who has actively lobbied against strict curbs on exporting advanced artificial intelligence chips to China. Despite opposition from bipartisan hawks, US President Donald Trump permitted the export of Nvidia’s H200 chips to the country last year.
The diplomatic friction arrives just ahead of a scheduled meeting next week between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC summit in Shenzhen. Both nations continue to navigate high-stakes technological competition and geopolitical tensions centring on global AI dominance.
