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Move over, Tim Cook. Jensen Huang is America Inc’s new China envoy
Nvidia’s boss is proving to be a canny diplomat.
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Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang facing the media in Beijing, China, on July 16.
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The Economist
As a teenager in Oregon, Jensen Huang was one mean ping-pong player. In 1978, his mentor, Lou Bochenski, described him in a letter to Sports Illustrated magazine as “perhaps the most promising junior ever to play table tennis” in the American north-west.
Had he been a bit older, who knows, he might well have joined Bochenski’s daughter, Judy, who toured China in 1971 as part of then US President Richard Nixon’s “ping-pong diplomacy” initiative to improve relations between the capitalist and communist worlds.
