Trump Won't Raise Nvidia Spy Scandal on China Trip, Officials Say

President Donald Trump will not raise the suspected Chinese spy scandal swirling around Nvidia during his upcoming trip to China, senior U.S. officials told reporters Friday evening. The officials said they don't expect the Nvidia situation to have any bearing on the visit, and don't expect it to come up in conversations between U.S. and Chinese officials. Asked directly, one senior official said: 'I don't expect the president to raise it, the Alice Huang issue.'

Elon Musk will travel with Trump to Shenzhen, China, for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, the officials said. The White House said earlier Friday that Trump plans to hold a three-way summit there with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The scandal detonated this week when Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia's CEO following reports he had an affair with Alice Huang, an executive at Megaspeed, a Singapore-based cloud-computing company being eyed for possibly facilitating the transfer of billions of dollars worth of Nvidia chips in violation of U.S. restrictions. Alice Huang is the alleged spy, and she and Jensen Huang are not related.

The fallout has rocked Nvidia and raised questions about whether the Commerce Department, led by Trump's friend Howard Lutnick, has been aggressive enough at blocking advanced chips from ending up in China.