'US uses spying claims as pretext for tech blockade'
China accused the United States on Thursday of using spurious spying claims as a pretext to impose a technological "blockade" on Beijing, following claims that Nvidia boss Jensen Huang was the victim of a Chinese espionage plot. "China's technological progress is driven by independent innovation and open cooperation. The US side should stop fabricating such 'spy' narratives as a pretext for imposing a technological blockade," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told a…