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By Giulia Carbonaro
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Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang defended engaging with China in an interview filmed weeks ago, it has emerged, amid an internal investigation into claims he had an affair with an alleged Chinese spy.
On Monday, Bloomberg shared previously unreleased footage of an interview with Huang conducted in October, in which he criticized U.S. chip restrictions on China.
In December 2025, President Donald Trump gave Nvidia permission to sell its advanced H200, an older AI chip, to “approved customers” in China, in a decision that was applauded by Huang, but other restrictions remain in place.
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“I did my best to inform the policymakers in the United States of the importance of engaging the Chinese markets and making sure that we serve the market for as long as we can. I think we made a mistake. And this mistake is hard to unwind,” he told Bloomberg’s Emily Chang for an upcoming episode of The Circuit.
“But I did my best, that’s all I could do. There are more Chinese AI researchers than any other nation in the world, and many of them working at the labs. I’ve been very clear that even though we compete against China, they’re not our enemies.
“If we care deeply about the safety of the world with respect to artificial intelligence, then of course we must open dialogues. We must work with them in every possible way.”
Huang said that the two nations—the United States and China—share the same goals: they want to be successful, and they want to be rich.
“We should respect that aspiration,” he said in regards to China. “We should be comforted by nations that want prosperity, that want better for their people,” Huang said.
Nvidia is investigating whether Huang was potentially the target of a foreign intelligence effort after it was alleged, by the New York Times, that a woman he had an affair with had been found to be a Chinese spy by United States officials.
When reached for comment Sunday, the Chinese Embassy in the U.S. referred Newsweek to a comment from Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun October 30, in which he called the reporting "unsubstantiated."
"It is nothing but smears against China," Jiakun said.
Newsweek contacted Nvidia for comment by email on Monday morning.
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