espionage
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This is at root a corporate-governance scandal as much as a spy caper, although we’re not as quick as some to dismiss the espionage element.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Leadership matters, as the market attests: Some $500 billion of Nvidia’s value has evaporated since Sunday when news dropped of the board’s investigation into reports the CEO was a target of Chinese espionage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Singapore authorities said they had also investigated Alice Huang - not for espionage, but for any possible role in Megaspeed's suspected fraud.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026
And US Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Thursday the Department of Justice had not yet drawn any conclusions about whether Alice Huang was engaged in espionage for Beijing.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
It was a mediocre boardinghouse for penniless students, presided over by a middle-aged couple with a calling for espionage.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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