Xi Jinping and Donald Trump in Washington, DC on Sept. 25.
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Xi Jinping’s third summit of the year with Donald Trump is going off script before their meetings even get underway, as the spy allegations engulfing Nvidia Corp.’s Jensen Huang reopen old rifts.
For years, Huang had been most the prominent US tech executive advocating for greater engagementBloomberg Terminal with China as he lobbied for looser export controls on semiconductors. Now, bombshell accusations he conducted an affair with an alleged Chinese spy are giving lawmakers in Washington ammunition to tighten curbs, days before a major leaders’ summit in the Chinese technology hub of Shenzhen.