China hawks in Washington viewed Huang’s departure from NVIDIA as a ‘huge victory’ and are ready to ‘seize the moment’ to push for tougher policies toward Beijing

US State Secretary and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio “rewrote” a CIA report into the extramarital affair of former NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, recasting the agency’s finding in his "own terms,” informed sources told the Washington Post on 13 November.

“Rubio issued a memo warning Trump about the relationship between Huang and a suspected Chinese spy, based on a report generated by the CIA … Rubio used the CIA report to write his own, recasting the agency’s reporting in his own more assertive terms,” the US daily reported.

Details of Rubio’s memo, which was disseminated to “a very small group of senior US officials,” according to CNN, leaked this week, prompting Huang’s swift exit from the chipmaking giant he helped found.