China Rejects U.S. Officials’ Claim That Alice Huang Aided Beijing

China rejected reports linking Alice Huang to Chinese intelligence Friday, after U.S. officials alleged she acted as an intelligence asset for Beijing and passed information to the Chinese government.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun addressed the reports at a regular briefing on Oct. 30. “Relevant reports are unsubstantiated. They are nothing but smears against China,” Guo said.

The allegations concern Huang’s connection to Singapore-based data center firm Megaspeed. Chinese Embassy spokesperson Liu Chang had previously rejected the U.S. intelligence allegations involving Huang and Megaspeed.

Nvidia has characterized CEO Jensen Huang’s contacts with Alice Huang as routine customer discussions and maintained that Megaspeed did not receive sensitive company or national-security details. Megaspeed has said it brought in outside lawyers to examine the matter and intends to cooperate with U.S. authorities.

Separately, China had signaled an intent to approve Nvidia purchases by ByteDance and Alibaba, though no purchase quantities had been disclosed.