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Today's press tour includes an article about the "emotional relationship" of the head of Nvidia and how it turned into a nightmare that threatens American national security, and an article about the British economy that is suffering a "heart attack," in addition to an article about the imprisoned Turkish politician Selahattin Demirtas.
We begin our tour with the Wall Street Journal, which published an article by Robbie Whelan and Amrith Ramkumar in which they discussed the extent of the threat that Nvidia, the giant artificial intelligence processors, may pose to American national security.
The authors say that NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang, was in Taipei in June 2024 to participate in an annual computer industry exhibition.
During one of the evenings that brought together a number of CEOs of technology sector companies, Alice Huang, who was then holding a leadership position at the Singaporean data center company Megaspeed, suggested that she could convince Jensen Huang to join them.
One of the attendees quoted her as saying: “Jensen is a dear friend of mine.” Minutes after she sent her a text message, Huang showed up at the scene before later leaving alone, according to the article.
But this incident later turned into a security issue. Several months later, US authorities launched an investigation into whether Megaspeed had illegally transferred artificial intelligence chips from NVIDIA to China, while authorities in Taiwan and Singapore opened investigations into Alice Huang's possible links to China.
Nvidia management said last Sunday that it had opened an investigation to find out whether Jensen Huang had been subjected to an attempted targeting by a foreign intelligence service, after media reports emerged stating that the US government concluded that Alice Huang was transmitting information to Chinese intelligence at the time she was in a relationship with the company's CEO.
The board added that "there is nothing to suggest that national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised."
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In an internal memo, Huang apologized for "betraying" his family and colleagues, saying, "I love our country and our company," after admitting he had a romantic relationship with Alice.
The case coincided with a widespread debate within the Trump administration regarding artificial intelligence policies and technological competition with China. It also raised questions about the influence of Nvidia, which pushed hard to allow it to sell advanced electronic chips to China.
Nvidia shares fell 5.5 percent last Tuesday. Reports also indicate that the company halted all sales and shipments to Megaspeed in June 2025, while US investigations continued regarding suspicions of smuggling chips into China and possible ties between Alice Huang and Chinese intelligence services, according to the article.
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We turn to the British newspaper The Independent, which published an article written by one of the most prominent economists in the United Kingdom, who warned that the country was approaching a state of complete economic paralysis.
Andy Haldane, former chief economist at the Bank of England and former informal economic adviser to Andy Burnham, warned that the British economy was in danger of suffering an “economic heart attack” due to what he described as the government’s “reckless” fiscal approach.
Haldane said the UK's financial situation was "on the brink, with most indicators on the financial dashboard flashing red," warning that the country was "more fragile today than at any time in the past half-century."
Haldane criticized Prime Minister Andy Burnham's failure to exploit the budget to reduce the cost of borrowing, likening current government policies to "not renewing your home insurance while your neighbor's house is burning." He added that the government chose to deplete its financial reserves instead of strengthening them, considering this “reckless complacency.”
He pointed out that the British borrowing cost has become the highest among the G7 countries, even though the debt burden is lower compared to some of those countries.
He attributed this to the lack of credibility of Burnham and Treasury Secretary John Healy's plans in the eyes of financial markets, pointing out that the government intends to reduce the "fiscal margin" available to it from 23 billion pounds to 16 billion pounds.
Haldane said the government needed to save between 30 and 40 billion pounds by raising taxes or cutting spending to address fiscal challenges, but it avoided this in what he described as a “do no harm budget.”
He added: "The financial blood pressure in the UK is very high. In such a situation, the doctor will prescribe a clinical intervention to reduce the risk of a financial heart attack."
But he saw that the government instead provided “remedies consisting of more deficits, debts, taxes and spending,” adding: “The doctor who prescribes this treatment may be struck from the professional register.”
He also warned of the dangers of repeating crises similar to what Greece witnessed in 2009 or the repercussions that followed the Liz Terrace budget in 2022, stressing that such crises may “drown the poorest groups” and lead to “the harshest and most severe cuts.”
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Demirtas: A Turkish dissident demands Erdogan to release him
We turn to the British newspaper The Guardian, which indicated that the name of Selahattin Demirtas emerged on the Turkish political scene at the beginning of the last decade as one of the most influential and influential young politicians.
The human rights lawyer, and one of the founders of the Amnesty International branch in Diyarbakir, was famous for his satirical speeches and his ability to address the public in a way different from the traditional political elite.
Demirtaş's political rise began in 2010 when he assumed the presidency of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), before turning into one of the most prominent faces of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
In the 2014 presidential elections, Demirtas obtained 9.7 percent of the votes despite losing to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The peak of his political success came in the June 2015 elections, when his party won 13.1 percent of the votes, a result described as exceptional for a movement that combines environmental and socialist tendencies and the defense of women’s and Kurdish rights.
On the other hand, the Justice and Development Party lost its parliamentary majority for the first time since 2002.
But this momentum did not last long. In 2016, Demirtas was imprisoned on charges related to “promoting terrorism,” where he remains detained in the high-security Edirne Prison.
During his nearly ten-year imprisonment, he wrote seven books, including a collection of short stories entitled “The Dawn,” which was published in 2017 and sold one hundred thousand copies within 20 days.
The imprisoned political leader's case is linked to the events of Kobani in 2014, when he called for support for Kurdish fighters who were confronting ISIS in northern Syria.
The protests associated with these events witnessed the death of more than 40 people. He was later sentenced to 42 years in prison on charges including undermining state unity, incitement to crime and terrorist propaganda, while he was acquitted of murder charges linked to the violence.
With the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in late 2024 and the start of a new path of reconciliation between the Turkish state and the Kurds, hopes for his release were renewed.
The year 2025 witnessed notable steps, including a symbolic ceremony to burn the PKK’s weapons and the adoption of a law regulating the process of dissolving the party and reintegrating some of its members into society.
In November 2025, the European Court of Human Rights deemed Demirtaş’s imprisonment “politically motivated,” asserting that “the real aim was to stifle pluralism and limit democratic debate.”
Erdogan also said: “We will abide by what the judiciary says,” while his ally Devlet Bahceli described Demirtas’ release as “it will be beneficial for Turkey.” He then stressed that "Demirtaş must return to his home."
Despite these positions, the Turkish courts did not implement the European Court’s decision, leaving Demirtas, who is 53 years old, behind bars to this day.
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