{"id":15678,"date":"2026-11-12T08:45:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T08:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/china-accuses-us-of-using-spy-claims-to-justify-tech-blockade\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T08:45:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T08:45:46","slug":"china-accuses-us-of-using-spy-claims-to-justify-tech-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/china-accuses-us-of-using-spy-claims-to-justify-tech-blockade\/","title":{"rendered":"China accuses US of using spy claims to justify tech blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"55\">\n<p>Beijing has accused the United States on Thursday of using spurious spying claims as a pretext to impose a technological \u201cblockade\u201d on China, following claims that Nvidia boss Jensen Huang was the victim of a Chinese espionage plot.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina\u2019s technological progress is driven by independent innovation and open cooperation. The US side should stop fabricating such \u2018spy\u2019 narratives as a pretext for imposing a technological blockade,\u201d foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told a regular briefing.\n<\/p>\n<p>Huang, who co-founded Nvidia and turned it into the world\u2019s leading supplier of the chips that power AI, has admitted to having an extramarital affair, reportedly with Alice Huang.\n<\/p>\n<p>She is reported to be a former executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed and is thought by US officials to have worked for Chinese intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The Nvidia boss has spent years lobbying against curbs on sales of advanced chips to China. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>US President Donald Trump last year cleared Nvidia\u2019s H200 chips for export there over objections from hawks in both parties who fear Beijing winning the race to dominate in AI technology.\n<\/p>\n<p>China has dismissed the claims about spying on Huang as \u201cgroundless speculation\u201d and \u201can attempt to smear China\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The furore comes ahead of a meeting next week between Trump and President Xi Jinping at the APEC gathering in Shenzhen in southern China.\n<\/p>\n<p>AFP\n                    <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#a8dcc0cdcdccc1dcc7dae8d8ddc6cbc0c6cf86cbc7c5\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"30445855555459445f427040455e53585e571e535f5d\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing has accused the United States on Thursday of using spurious spying claims as a pretext to impose a technological \u201cblockade\u201d on China, following claims that Nvidia boss Jensen Huang&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}