China Experts React to Nvidia CEO’s Alleged Affair with Chinese Spy

OXON HILL, Md.—Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s alleged affair with a Chinese spy should cause the United States to rethink its export control policy, China experts said.

“It’s good news what happened today because it does clarify things,” said Piero Tozzi, senior director for China policy at the America First Policy Institute, on Thursday. “I think we were under this China fantasy.”

Tozzi appeared on a panel with Cato Institute Senior Fellow Katherine Thompson and Heritage Foundation Asia scholar Steve Yates at The Heritage Foundation’s “The Forum,” discussing the threats posted by the Chinese Communist Party.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stepped down on Thursday after reports that he had an affair with an alleged Chinese spy while seeking to influence President Donald Trump on access to Chinese markets.

The news could cause Congress to impose additional export controls on Nvidia chips being sold to China.

“It does get people’s attention,” Tozzi said. “People start to say, ‘Well, wait a second,’ and I think it will lead to Congress taking action on export controls. Overall, it is a positive breakup.”

Thompson said that Congress needs to evaluate the scope of the president’s waivers on export controls.

“This is a top of mind policy question for Congress to consider,” she said.

“Oftentimes, export control policy includes a waiver that the president can issue for any blanket national security related concern and that sort of exercise of executive power, where we may not want export control policies or restrictions to be waived,” she said. “I think this becomes really important when you have you know individuals who have White House access who are around a president.”

Yates said the U.S. needs smarter capacities to combat China.

“We have nowhere near the access into China that we have allowed them to have access into our country,” Yates said, “and that might seem innocuous until someone is bringing a deadly pathogen into a research laboratory in Michigan under the guise of academic exchange, where someone sets up an illegal police station in Flushing, and they’re actually persecuting people, not just saying mean things to them, but actually physically harming people because they sought asylum here to escape religious persecution or other kinds of thought crime inside inside China.”

The U.S. is in the process of diagnosing the problem, Yates said.

“We need to go back to funding and authorizing the part of the FBI that deals with this,” he said.

More from this network:
Domains for Sale · GOTPeople.org · TheDSAPlatform · The Truth About Socialism

Donate to GOTPeople.org