US President Donald Trump is expected to meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping in China this week, where he could be upstaged by the controversy around former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair with an accused Chinese spy.
Semafor reported Sunday that Howard Lutnick is expected to join the president in China, despite mounting scrutiny of the commerce secretary’s handling of investigations into Nvidia customers suspected of funneling chips to mainland firms.
Huang is mulling a comeback as CEO, the Financial Times reported, eyeing support from the White House; that could complicate matters for Trump, who has “figured out that in a moment where things are really hard domestically: Get on an airplane and go international,” a former Biden administration official said.
— Lauren Morganbesser
