US President Donald Trump is not expected to raise allegations of a Chinese intelligence operation involving former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang when he meets Chinese President Xi Jinping during his upcoming trip, senior US officials said on Friday. The allegations centre on Huang's relationship with Alice Huang, who is not related to him and who was an executive of Megaspeed, a cloud-computing company accused of helping divert restricted Nvidia chips to China in violation of US restrictions.

Officials said the focus of the Xi meeting, at least on the economic side, will be the implementation of the trade agreement, and that national security investigations under way in the US are not something the administration plans to raise with Beijing at this point. One official said, "The situation with Nvidia should not really have any bearing on the trip," adding that the US does not negotiate export controls with China. China has called the allegations against Alice Huang baseless.S2

The trip is to Shenzhen for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit on November 18 and 19. The White House said Trump plans a three-way summit there with Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, will also accompany Trump, with officials citing his substantial business interests in the US-China relationship and saying he could be of benefit as an adviser to the president.S1S2

The affair scandal has rocked Nvidia. Jensen Huang resigned as CEO earlier this week after reports that he had an affair with Alice Huang, and questions have been raised about whether the Commerce Department, led by Howard Lutnick, has been aggressive enough in blocking advanced chips from reaching China.S2