Chinese Espionage Evolves: Targeting Tech, Politics

Chinese intelligence agencies’ decades-long human intelligence operations have resurfaced at the heart of the AI semiconductor industry. Traditional honey trap tactics, once used to exploit romantic feelings of diplomats or counterintelligence agents to extract classified documents, have evolved into sophisticated operations targeting top executives of cutting-edge tech firms and influential politicians to sway policy decisions. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang admitted on November 8 (local time) to ha