Washington divided over how to deal with fallout from the Nvidia case

President Donald Trump is happy to talk to the media about the Jensen Huang affair, but his staff say he won't bring it up with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at their meeting next week. Perhaps surprising given parts of his own administration believe China ensnared one of America's most powerful businessmen in a honeypot and smuggled in billions of dollars worth of restricted computer chips. A leak that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says hurts America. So any leakage is very frustrating because it hurts our great companies and the AI race gives the Chinese an advantage. Trump is close to Jensen Huang and reportedly took no action when US officials briefed him on suspected spy Alice Huang a year ago. Her Singapore company MegaSpeed is under US investigation for allegedly breaching export restrictions. Bessent has now acknowledged that government departments disagreed on whether to blacklist the company. Treasury, War, USTR and State, they were in favor of putting MegaSpeed on the entity list for months. But Commerce has the pen, Commerce BIS has the pen, and you will have to ask them about their internal process. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reportedly resisted placing more limits on the sale of chips to China. Numerous members of Congress are calling on him to testify, and Reuters reports the White House is considering showing him the door.