Trump's Howard Lutnick refuses to blacklist company of Nvidia Jensen Huang’s mistress

Howard Lutnick’s Commerce Department is holding up efforts to blacklist Megaspeed, a Singapore-based cloud company under investigation over suspected shipments of advanced Nvidia (NVDA) chips to China, according to The Financial Times. That would already be a serious fight over US export rules. But the company also has ties to Alice Huang, a former director accused of spying for Beijing who allegedly had a romantic relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Federal agencies want Megaspeed on the blacklist The Entity List is a database that serves as a barrier to foreign entities trying to buy technology from America. US exporters require special licenses to sell their products to such firms, which allows the US government to deny such equipment to China for their military advancements.

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