Ben Thompson has made this point a couple times, but he seems unwilling (for obvious reasons!) to just come out and say he’s not sure Alice Huang was actually a spy:

As I noted on Monday, the allegation that Alice Huang was a spy is coming from the exact corners of the national security apparatus who stridently disagree with Jensen Huang’s position on selling to China; given that, it’s notable that the Chinese spy agency may have not known who she was either.

Words have power. When rumors take hold there’s no undoing them, usually.