Jensen Huang is balancing Nvidia’s growing U.S. manufacturing push with efforts to preserve key partnerships in China amid rising trade tensions.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in Beijing on April 17, 2025, just days after the US government imposed an indefinite export restriction on the company's H20 AI chip to China. The timing of Huang's visit—at the invitation of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT)—has sparked speculation about how Nvidia plans to navigate escalating US-China tensions and its role at the center of the global AI race.