{"id":1048259,"date":"2026-11-10T08:08:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T02:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048259"},"modified":"2026-11-10T08:13:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T02:43:43","slug":"between-the-chip-and-the-slip-honeytrap-suspicions-further-sours-ties-between-us-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/10\/between-the-chip-and-the-slip-honeytrap-suspicions-further-sours-ties-between-us-and-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Between the chip and the slip: Honeytrap suspicions further sours ties between US and China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has been chipping away at American technological primacy for years. Now, if US intelligence suspicions are borne out, it may have found a rather intimate way of getting close to the crown jewels of America&#8217;s AI empire \u2013 seducing its top chip honcho, Nvidia\u2019s Jensen Huang, in a honeytrap operation worthy of a spy thriller. <\/p>\n<p>The allegations are explosive, although they remain unproven. Nvidia&#8217;s board, which includes Aarti Shah, an Indian-origin veteran from Eli Lilly, has launched an independent investigation into whether its 63-year-old chief executive was targeted by a foreign intelligence operation. Beijing has denied the allegations, saying they are &#8220;nothing but smears against China.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has been chipping away at American technological primacy for years. Now, if US intelligence suspicions are borne out, it may have found a rather intimate way of getting close to the crown jewels of America&#8217;s AI empire \u2013 seducing its top chip honcho, Nvidia\u2019s Jensen Huang, in a honeytrap operation worthy of a spy thriller. The allegations are explosive, although they remain unproven. Nvidia&#8217;s board, which includes Aarti Shah, an Indian-origin veteran from Eli Lilly, has launched an independent investigation into whether its 63-year-old chief executive was targeted by a foreign intelligence operation. Beijing has denied the allegations, saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048280,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048259\/revisions\/1048280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}