This is a strange take. There is no reason Huang couldn't have been both a fixer and an intelligence asset at the same time. That someone could be both is not at all unusual in China; it's common.
Beijing has designated AI as a "strategic technology" so the idea that someone buying billions of dollars of chips that were being smuggled to China wouldn't be interfacing in some way with key parts of the Chinese state, and being supported by the Chinese state, is silly.
If the end customer of these chips was Alibaba, or any other big Chinese tech company, that only increases the likelihood that the people at the center of the smuggling network would be involved with the state. Alibaba ADRs might be traded on the NYSE but Alibaba is on the 1260H list, which contains entities identified as Chinese military companies operating in the United States. There is literally no big technology business in China that operates independent of the state, even if it's not officially a state-owned enterprise.
I read it as saying that her primary role is a fixer, not her only.
It's almost a given that if she fixed on behalf of a billion-dollar company, the state could ask her for a favour, at least indirectly. There will be someone at all big companies who has a contact, right?
He somehow fell from grace in the Chinese political circles so hard that they bagged his wife. He of course fled.
Illoyalty is his key character trait. That’s one of the guys selling their own mother if he can get an advantage from it.
If you think it’s a strange take, it’s likely that someone paid him to write this. Do not forget Huang hired Heller Inc., a scandal fixer, and has really deep pockets.
>I suspect Alice Huang is primarily a commercial fixer, known in Chinese as a qian ke (掮客), who may also have served as a bai shou tao (白手套), literally a “white glove,” for other business interests, rather than a CCP intelligence operative.
Always be cautious if people think they know more than all of the combined intelligence of the US together.
I am confident he also has zero intel on how a CCP intelligence operative works, as these people wouldn’t have touched a guy that hangs around the world’s biggest pedophile for seven years with a 40-yard stick.
Jensen Huang is probably looking at a life in jail for providing weapons-grade technology to a key adversary of the United States for personal financial gain, if Democrats decide to properly investigate this with every tool at their disposal after January.
So the whole "treason" narrative needs to go away fast, and that means putting doubt from "Chinese insiders" like Shum into the public space about Alice Huang potential intelligence background.
Because only if she isn’t a spy it’s not treason, just a bunch of bad business decisions.
Risa Heller is a clever girl.
Back in the day we used to call people like Huang a traitor, today the president relabeled that word to "business friends with benefits".
Going from almost broke to 7B net worth at only half-time of a presidency doesn’t happen if you sell lemonade on the White House lawn.
The guy used to go down on his knees and open wide for anyone who would give him some billionaire bus money after. Shumbags don’t change.
This is a strange take. There is no reason Huang couldn't have been both a fixer and an intelligence asset at the same time. That someone could be both is not at all unusual in China; it's common.
Beijing has designated AI as a "strategic technology" so the idea that someone buying billions of dollars of chips that were being smuggled to China wouldn't be interfacing in some way with key parts of the Chinese state, and being supported by the Chinese state, is silly.
If the end customer of these chips was Alibaba, or any other big Chinese tech company, that only increases the likelihood that the people at the center of the smuggling network would be involved with the state. Alibaba ADRs might be traded on the NYSE but Alibaba is on the 1260H list, which contains entities identified as Chinese military companies operating in the United States. There is literally no big technology business in China that operates independent of the state, even if it's not officially a state-owned enterprise.
I read it as saying that her primary role is a fixer, not her only.
It's almost a given that if she fixed on behalf of a billion-dollar company, the state could ask her for a favour, at least indirectly. There will be someone at all big companies who has a contact, right?
Good intuition.
Shum got into bed with Epstein. He really doesn’t like when people talk about that. You can make up your own mind.
https://epsteinexposed.com/persons/desmond-shum#documents
He somehow fell from grace in the Chinese political circles so hard that they bagged his wife. He of course fled.
Illoyalty is his key character trait. That’s one of the guys selling their own mother if he can get an advantage from it.
If you think it’s a strange take, it’s likely that someone paid him to write this. Do not forget Huang hired Heller Inc., a scandal fixer, and has really deep pockets.
>I suspect Alice Huang is primarily a commercial fixer, known in Chinese as a qian ke (掮客), who may also have served as a bai shou tao (白手套), literally a “white glove,” for other business interests, rather than a CCP intelligence operative.
Always be cautious if people think they know more than all of the combined intelligence of the US together.
I am confident he also has zero intel on how a CCP intelligence operative works, as these people wouldn’t have touched a guy that hangs around the world’s biggest pedophile for seven years with a 40-yard stick.
Jensen Huang is probably looking at a life in jail for providing weapons-grade technology to a key adversary of the United States for personal financial gain, if Democrats decide to properly investigate this with every tool at their disposal after January.
So the whole "treason" narrative needs to go away fast, and that means putting doubt from "Chinese insiders" like Shum into the public space about Alice Huang potential intelligence background.
Because only if she isn’t a spy it’s not treason, just a bunch of bad business decisions.
Risa Heller is a clever girl.
Back in the day we used to call people like Huang a traitor, today the president relabeled that word to "business friends with benefits".
Going from almost broke to 7B net worth at only half-time of a presidency doesn’t happen if you sell lemonade on the White House lawn.
The guy used to go down on his knees and open wide for anyone who would give him some billionaire bus money after. Shumbags don’t change.