China’s Spy Tactics Use Romance as a Long Game

U.S. officials allege China’s intelligence services used a romantic relationship between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and a businesswoman, Alice Huang, to collect information, highlighting espionage tactics involving intimacy. Alice Huang, a Singapore-based executive renting Nvidia chips to Chinese firms, is accused of being a Chinese spy, though no evidence has been provided. Jensen Huang acknowledged the affair, and President Trump said Huang was unaware of her alleged role. China denies the claims. The case contrasts with a 1960 pledge by Chinese intelligence official Kong Yuan that his agency would avoid seduction tactics, a promise contradicted by decades of reported operations using romantic entanglements to compromise prominent figures.