11.09
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 2
·Beijing
At the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 9, an AFP reporter asked about NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang admitting to an extramarital affair and the woman involved being suspected by US intelligence agencies of engaging in espionage for China. Spokesperson Guo Jiakun responded that the so-called Chinese spy narrative is purely based on hearsay, slander, and smearing.
11.09
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
On November 9, the Global Times posted on Weibo regarding Jensen Huang's public extramarital affair, calling it a US domestic matter, accusing The New York Times of hyping up Chinese espionage, and suspecting that some are using this to stir up China-US relations.
11.07
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·United States
According to the Financial Times, multiple people familiar with the matter said that US officials wrote a memo this year based on intelligence, suggesting that Jensen Huang had a romantic relationship with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, whom intelligence agencies believe was recruited by the Ministry of State Security to engage in espionage. Nvidia declined to comment.
2026.11
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 1
·United States
U.S. intelligence agencies have identified a Singaporean executive named Huang Xiaole as a female spy for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Under pressure, Jensen Huang issued an open letter to Nvidia employees admitting to the affair, and the board of directors has begun an investigation into whether she is suspected of helping the CCP.
11.01
·Official claim
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Panama
The official WeChat account of the Chinese Embassy in Panama issued a statement responding to accusations of cyber espionage made by the U.S. Ambassador, using colloquialisms such as 'Are we going to stop farming just because we hear the cicadas chirping?'
2026.11
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Jiangsu
Recently, several railway photography enthusiasts were taken away by local personnel while filming train operations near the perimeter fence of Yuding Station in Jiangsu. They were accused of espionage, their mobile phones were confiscated for data extraction, and they were ordered to delete their photos. They were released after being detained for over 48 hours, during which no written documentation was provided, and their phones were not returned.
10.30
·Official claim
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·Beijing, China
In response to foreign media reports alleging that Chinese businesswoman Huang Le contacted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to assist in bypassing chip sanctions, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun stated that the claims are purely slanderous and smear tactics.
10.30
·Reported
·Importance III
·Sources 1
·United States
On October 30, the US Department of Justice announced that two Chinese men who conducted clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) were each sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty, followed by three years of supervised release. The two had assisted in identifying recruitable US military personnel and, in January 2022, arranged for individuals within the US to drop off approximately $10,000 in cash via a dead drop in a storage locker.
10.17
·Verified
·Importance III
·Sources 2
According to an exclusive CBS News investigation, 34-year-old California Chinese-American real estate agent Wanying Zhang (Wanying Zhang) was arrested by the FBI on suspicion of conducting espionage for China. The investigation found that Zhang had previously been suspected of surveilling Lai Ching-te's son in Seattle, and that she had indirect ties to Cambodia's Prince Group and a transnational money laundering network. The case is still under further investigation.
10.17
·Verified
·Importance III
·Sources 1
According to a report by Representative Moolenaar, chairman of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and others, COSCO Shipping has maintained a decades-long espionage partnership with the Chinese Communist Party. The report states that its cargo ships are suspected of using concealed equipment near the U.S. coast to intercept military communications, posing a serious counterintelligence threat to the United States.
10.16
·Verified
·Importance III
·Sources 1
On October 16, 2026 Beijing time, John Moolenaar, Chairman of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, together with Representatives Rick Crawford and Carlos Giménez, jointly sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin. The letter accused Chinese state-owned enterprise COSCO of using its vessels to conduct espionage near the U.S. coastline, and called on the Department of Homeland Security to take action.
10.16
·Developing
·Importance III
·Sources 1
According to a post by X user @jielijian citing an Al Jazeera report, secretly recorded evidence of the Chinese government and the Southeast Asia telecom fraud supply chain has been exposed. The report discloses details of Chinese Communist Party spies from Cambodia meeting in multiple locations in Guangzhou, points out that the Chinese government invested 350 million dollars in a military runway to supply the CCP military port in Djibouti, and mentions that female employees of CCP agents provided close, close-quarters protection to Xi Jinping's visiting delegation.
10.15
·Verified
·Importance III
·Sources 2
According to Radio France Internationale, a Chinese citizen accused of espionage appeared in a Czech court for the first time on October 15, 2026, local time. The defendant denied the charges of engaging in espionage activities during the trial. The case is currently undergoing further proceedings.
10.14
·Verified
·Importance IV
·Sources 4
·United States
On October 14, 2026, the U.S. House Select Committee on the CCP issued a formal statement noting that recent espionage cases across the U.S. highlight the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its brazen transnational repression, reaffirming its commitment to exposing the CCP's schemes to suppress dissidents and infiltrate institutions. On the same day, Bill Essayli, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California, warned in an interview with Fox News that CCP espionage activities are "extremely rampant and playing the long game" across the U.S. He cited major cases including the interstate stalking of Lai Ching-te's family, a former mayor acting as an unregistered foreign agent, and the smuggling of $300 million in chips, emphasizing that federal agencies are working to dismantle domestic spy networks.
10.14
·Developing
·Importance III
·Sources 1
According to Radio France Internationale, Russia has accused a Japanese journalist of espionage and arrested him.