Trump doesn’t plan to raise Nvidia, spy issue during China trip: U.S. officials

President Donald Trump does not plan to raise the issue of a suspected Chinese spy having an affair with former Nvidia CEO J ensen Huang during his upcoming trip to China, senior U.S. officials told reporters on Friday evening.

Officials said they do not expect the situation with Nvidia to have any bearing on the trip, and that they do not expect it to figure into any conversations between U.S. officials and the Chinese during the visit.

"I don't expect the president to raise it, the Alice Huang issue," a senior U.S. official, referring to the alleged spy who had an affair with Jensen Huang. The two are not related.

Officials also said that Elon Musk will accompany Trump on the trip to Shenzhen, China, for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

The White House earlier Friday said that Trump plans to have a three-way summit while there with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Huang resigned this week as Nvidia's CEO after damning reports that he had an affair with Alice Huang, who was an executive of Megaspeed , a Singapore-based cloud-computing company that is being eyed for possible facilitation of sending billions of dollars worth of Nvidia chips in violation of U.S. restrictions on those chips. Alice Huang is not related to Jensen Huang.

The scandal has rocked Nvidia and raised questions about whether the Commerce Department, which is led by Trump's friend Howard Lutnick, has been aggressive enough at blocking advanced chips from ending up in China.