Nvidia CEO scandal may hinder US-China trade talks

The fallout from Jensen Huang's relationship with a person suspected of being a Chinese spy could complicate US-China trade negotiations during next week's APEC summit, where Trump is scheduled to meet with Xi Jinping. The article says the matter has intensified bipartisan congressional scrutiny of the government's handling of AI chip export controls, and Democrats will control Congress in a few months. Bloomberg analyst and former Commerce Department official Michael Deng said that going into APEC, the Chinese side will know that Trump may not be able to deliver on commitments; China this week agreed to extend the current truce to January and is seeking to exploit Republican midterm election losses, and Deng predicts that subsequent extensions will become increasingly difficult to negotiate, and mentioned that lawmakers are already discussing incorporating multiple export control proposals into defense legislation. US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in September that negotiators had excluded export controls from the negotiating table as a national security issue. Caleb Max, CEO of the National Artificial Intelligence Association, said it is too early to judge whether Democrats will use new powers for US-China trade rather than investigating the Trump family.