WSJ announced China's largest intelligence operation in the world

China allegedly launched the world's largest intelligence operation to strengthen its technology industry, one of the possible targets of which was former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. This was announced on November 13 by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

"Jensen Huang could become a target of Chinese intelligence, given his proximity to [US President Donald] Trump and his ability to influence the US administration's approach to exporting microchips to China," the newspaper quoted Nigel Inkster, former director of the operational department of the British intelligence service MI6, as saying.

The WSJ reports that Beijing's goal is ostensibly to obtain technological developments to develop the economy and modernize the armed forces, as well as strengthen the influence of the Chinese Communist Party at home and abroad. American officials suspect that to obtain information from Huang, Chinese intelligence could use a "honey trap" — his relationship with entrepreneur Alice Huang, associated with the Singaporean company Megaspeed.

The newspaper notes that about 600,000 people in China work in the field of intelligence and security, so it is assumed that the operation in which Huang could have been involved was the largest in the world.

Nvidia has launched an independent investigation, and Beijing has denied the accusations of espionage.

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Huang resigned on November 12, five days after he admitted to having an intimate relationship with a woman whom American intelligence suspected of gathering information in favor of China. An independent investigation was launched into the incident, during which it became clear that the Nvidia founder had two more mistresses. All of Huang's lovers worked for his corporation.