Beijing, Nov 9. (dpa/GNA) – China’s Foreign Ministry has rejected allegations of Chinese espionage, linked to the affair of Nvidia chief executive, Jensen Huang, with its spokesman Guo Jiakun, calling them made up and defamatory on Monday.
The boss of the US chipmaker, recently admitted to having had an affair, prompting Nvidia to launch an investigation.
The board, however, said it currently had no reason to believe that Nvidia’s trade secrets or US national security had been compromised.
Several media outlets had previously reported that Huang could have become the target of foreign espionage, because he had been in a relationship with a woman whom US security circles suspect was recruited by Chinese intelligence.
China’s state-run newspaper, Global Times, also dismissed the allegations, saying US media had inflated the case into an espionage scandal, based on a few photos of a woman with “Asian features”, and Nvidia’s efforts to ease trade restrictions on China.
Nvidia is a major supplier of advanced artificial intelligence chips.
GNA