China's intelligence law and the Alice Huang investigation

China's National Intelligence Law requires citizens and organisations to support state intelligence work, raising questions about its implications as US investigators examine Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang's alleged links to Beijing. Enacted in June 2017, Article 7 of the law mandates that all organisations and citizens must support, assist and cooperate with national intelligence efforts, though it lacks a specific penalty for refusing to cooperate. US officials remain divided over whether Huang was recruited by China's Ministry of State Security to gather information on former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, with Attorney General Todd Blanche saying no conclusions have been reached. Huang's Singapore-based company, Megaspeed International, is also under investigation by the US Department of Justice and Commerce Department over suspected diversion of restricted semiconductors to China. The FBI has investigated her relationship with the former Nvidia chief for at least a year, and authorities have not established she was acting as a spy.