“Trump doesn’t expect to address the Alice Hwang issue,” US officials told the Financial Times on Friday, November 14, 2026.
US President Donald Trump will not raise allegations linking Nvidia’s former chief executive to a Chinese spy during his upcoming summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week, according to US officials.
Alice Hwang is a former executive at Megaspeed, a Singaporean company that was a customer of Nvidia, and was revealed to have had an affair with former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. US intelligence agencies suspect that Alice Hwang may be a spy recruited by Chinese intelligence. Megaspeed is also suspected of bypassing US export control regulations to export Nvidia semiconductors to China.
Restricting advanced semiconductor exports to hostile nations is a core policy for maintaining US technological superiority. If included on this list, companies must obtain approval from the US government to export semiconductors.
US officials drew a line, stating that the Nvidia-related matters are separate from the US-China summit. Another US official said, “The Nvidia situation should not have any impact on this visit.”
The official stated, “In all discussions and negotiations with China, the issue of US export controls is not a subject for negotiation,” adding, “Export controls are national security matters determined through interagency consultations, and we do not expect this issue to be addressed during talks with the Chinese side during the visit to China.”
China strongly denies the spy allegations involving Alice Hwang.
Trump is scheduled to visit China to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit held in Shenzhen from November 17 to 19, and will hold a bilateral meeting with Xi on November 19.