the real "influence operation" targeting Jensen was run out of Washington, not Beijing
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2121447997779439954
Interesting: the Washington Post says that Jensen Huang's downfall was Marco Rubio's doing (washingtonpost.com/technology/202), and it looks like the "spy" framing was directly his and not the CIA's.
As they write, Rubio took a CIA report and rewrote it in a memo "in his own more assertive terms."
Which fits neatly with CNN reporting that the CIA is "not yet convinced" that Alice Huang was a spy (edition.cnn.com/2026/11/12/pol): if the CIA is not convinced, yet a memo rewritten from the CIA’s own report presented her as a spy, then there’s only one person who could have turned "not convinced" into "spy": the man who did the "more assertive" rewriting, aka Marco Rubio 
The WaPo article also mentions the motive: China hawks like Rubio had spent years trying to "destroy the influence Jensen had over the president", and WaPo calls his ouster "a huge victory" for them as it allows them to "seize on the moment to redirect the national agenda toward tougher policies on China."
And, as a matter of fact, they’re already pushing three new chip-restriction bills into the defense bill now that Jensen is no longer around to lobby against them.
If true, it means the real "influence operation" targeting Jensen was run out of Washington, not Beijing
The WaPo article also mentions the motive: China hawks like Rubio had spent years trying to "destroy the influence Jensen had over the president", and WaPo calls his ouster "a huge victory" for them as it allows them to "seize on the moment to redirect the national agenda toward tougher policies on China."
And, as a matter of fact, they’re already pushing three new chip-restriction bills into the defense bill now that Jensen is no longer around to lobby against them.
If true, it means the real "influence operation" targeting Jensen was run out of Washington, not Beijing
posted by Satish Sharma at
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