Trump says he backs Jensen Huang after the Times report on a Chinese executive close to him
President Trump called Nvidia's chief executive "a great, brilliant person" on Saturday, AFP reported, and said the US was looking "very closely" at the New York Times report that intelligence officials concluded an executive tied to Megaspeed, a Singapore data center company, was passing information to Beijing after building a close relationship with Huang. Asked whether Huang would stay an adviser, Trump said he "would like to say yes," unless evidence emerged. China called the report "groundless speculation"; Nvidia has said the meetings were ordinary customer contact.
Huang is the main voice in Washington for selling Nvidia chips in China, so this is a question about export policy as much as about one executive. SourcesB
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This story ran in the Morning Brief of November 2nd 2026.