MS NOW的妮可·华莱士分享了《纽约时报》一则“令人震惊”的新报道，她表示，该报道可能显示总统唐纳德·特朗普“在保护美国国家安全方面玩忽职守”。在周四的《Deadline: White House》节目中，华莱士讨论了《纽约时报》这则“重磅”报道，内容涉及一名中国女商人同英伟达总裁兼首席执行官黄仁勋的密切关系。英伟达是全球人工智能芯片领域最具主导地位的领军企业。据该报道，美国官员认定这名女子是中国情报人员。
MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace shared “shocking” new reporting from The New York Times, which she said could show that President Donald Trump is “asleep at the wheel in protecting U.S. national security.”On Thursday’s “Deadline: White House,” Wallace discussed the Times’ “blockbuster” report about a Chinese businesswoman’s close relationship with Jensen Huang, president and CEO of Nvidia, the world’s most dominant leader in artificial intelligence chips. U.S. officials concluded the woman was a Chinese intelligence asset, according to the report.
《纽约时报》报道称：“北京正从一名能直接接触黄仁勋的人那里获取情报，这一发现惊动了白宫。黄仁勋是人工智能革命中最有权势的人物之一，也是特朗普总统的一位有影响力的盟友。”
“The discovery that Beijing was getting reports from someone with direct access to Mr. Huang, one of the most powerful figures in the A.I. revolution as well as an influential ally of President Trump’s, set off alarms at the White House,” the Times reported.
“接下来发生的事，”华莱士说，“堪称国际政治丑闻的素材。”《纽约时报》称，特朗普听取了有关情报发现的汇报，但选择不采取行动。报道写道，他“一直不愿扰乱英伟达的芯片销售——这些销售正在帮助推动经济和股市——也不愿让与中国的贸易关系进一步复杂化”。
“What happened next,” Wallace said, “is the stuff of international political scandals.”The Times said Trump was briefed on the intelligence findings but chose not to act. He had “been wary of disrupting Nvidia’s chip sales, which are helping to drive the economy and the stock market, and of further complicating the trading relationship with China,” the report read.
“唐纳德·特朗普——这个声称没有人比他对中国更强硬的人——却什么也没做，”华莱士在谈到总统据称的不作为时说。她描述道，“当特朗普袖手旁观、一名中国间谍危险地接近美国最有价值公司的首席执行官时，我们的情报机构陷入恐慌。”英伟达否认其首席执行官成为间谍行动的目标。该公司对《纽约时报》表示，“黄仁勋与黄女士的互动并不异常，也不出人意料”，并且他“每年与数千名客户高管交谈”。据《纽约时报》报道，白宫、中央情报局和国家安全局拒绝置评。
“Donald Trump — the man who claims that no one is tougher on China than he is — does nothing,” Wallace said of the president’s reported inaction. She described “panic among our intelligence agencies as Trump sat by as a Chinese spy got dangerously close to the CEO of America’s most valuable company.”Nvidia denied that its CEO had been targeted in a spy plot. The company told the Times that “Jensen’s interactions with Ms. Huang are not unusual or unexpected” and that he “talks with thousands of customer executives every year.”The White House, the CIA and the National Security Agency declined to comment, according to the Times.
华莱士还指出，报道中描述了特朗普与英伟达之间的“密切财务关系”。一位知情人士向《纽约时报》透露，英伟达至少向特朗普的白宫宴会厅基金捐赠了2000万美元。本月早些时候，特朗普披露他购入了价值最高达160万美元的英伟达股票，并于8月卖出了最高达100万美元的英伟达股票。
Wallace also pointed to “close financial ties” between Trump and Nvidia that were described in the report. A person familiar with the matter told the Times that Nvidia donated at least $20 million to Trump’s White House ballroom fund. Earlier this month, Trump disclosed that he bought up to $1.6 million worth of Nvidia stock and sold up to $1 million in August.
华莱士表示，该报道揭示了特朗普公开言论与私下行为之间的差距。
Wallace said the report exposed a gap between Trump’s public statements and private behavior.
“今年早些时候，他援引保护美国技术机密的重要性以及在人工智能军备竞赛中击败中国，作为他反对人工智能能够且应该被监管的全部理由，”她说。
“Earlier this year, he cited the importance of protecting America’s technological secrets and beating China in the AI arms race as his entire rationale for why AI can’t and should not be regulated ever,” she said.
华莱士说，按照这一逻辑，特朗普“正让美国在世界舞台上成为最大的输家，因为他以一种与自身利益深度纠缠的方式危及美国国家安全。”
By that logic, Wallace said, Trump is “setting America up to be a great loser on the world stage, as he imperils U.S. national security in a matter that’s deeply entangled in his own bottom line.”