BJP leader Rajeev Chandrasekhar and Nvidia chief Jensen Huang. BJP leader and former Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Monday took a sharp swipe at China amid allegations that a Chinese executive, who reportedly had an affair with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, was working for Beijing's intelligence establishment. Taking to X, Chandrasekhar mocked what he described as China's longstanding reliance on shortcuts to acquire sensitive Western technology. "Why spend money on R&D when you have an easier, cheaper, faster way to access tech through honeytrapping?" he wrote, referring to the alleged espionage operation involving Huang and Chinese executive Alice Huang. The controversy erupted after The New York Times report published last month, claiming that US intelligence officials had found that Alice Huang, a Chinese executive associated with Singapore-based data centre company Megaspeed, had been passing information to Beijing. Alice Huang, also known as Huang Le, reportedly developed a close relationship with the Nvidia chief. However, China has rejected the espionage allegations, describing them as baseless. "For China, the ends justify their means. Any means, any way. That's their way. No global ethics or norms like trust apply to them," he added. The BJP leader also reposted an October 2020 post in which he had questioned how China's access to Western technology was facilitated by the openness of democratic systems. "I'm not going to comment on Hunter Biden's role. But open democratic systems like US and Western Europe are where China has harvested, aka stolen, most of its tech from," Chandrasekhar had written at the time. The earlier post referred to a media report about BHR Partners, a largely Chinese state-backed investment firm in which Hunter Biden, son of former US President Joe Biden, had served as a director. The firm had invested in and acquired technology considered strategically important to China. According to The New York Times report, Megaspeed had come under scrutiny over the suspected movement of Nvidia AI chips to China. The report also suggested that Huang's relationship with Alice Huang could potentially have provided insights into US President Donald Trump's thinking on artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, Nvidia's board has launched an independent investigation into the matter after Jensen Huang acknowledged the affair. The company has said it has no reason to believe that its confidential information or US national security interests have been compromised, but will examine all available information. Mahima Joshi works as a Chief Copy Editor at Times Now and is part of the India and Breaking Desk. Covering national stories and bringing breaking new... View More