alt Hacker News>Why would he let a Chinese spy who was potentially trying to use Huang to influence the president's US-China policy stay close to him
There's no evidence she influenced Jensen who influenced Trump who eased restrictions despite knowing she was a spy. Jensen has consistently been trying to relax restrictions for years, before they met, and others have made the same case Jensen has, that it's actually harmful to the US to restrict access and that a managed access strategy is better than a complete ban (and Trump said he would charge for it openly which I guess makes sense). She probably did what's called intelligence gathering. I personally don't have an opinion on the strategy.
Also, it's funny watching HN suddenly become hawkish on GPUs being shipped to China. Were you complaining about it back then or just now?
> There's no evidence she influenced Jensen who influenced Trump who eased restrictions despite knowing she was a spy.
Are you a member of the intelligence community? I'm not. This story is literally a week old. It's naive to think that all of the intelligence information the alphabet soup agencies have about Alice Huang and her relationship with Jensen, and how it might have compromised trade secrets, trade policy, etc. is going to be released to the public ASAP.
Most likely: we're never going to get the full story. The final story that gets told by the US will be what the US wants the world to believe, and the final story that gets told by China will be what China wants the world to believe.
> Also, it's funny watching HN suddenly become hawkish on GPUs being shipped to China. Were you complaining about it back then or just now?
I used to live in Taiwan, so I know exactly what China is and the threat it poses.