The Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang, suspected of spying for Beijing on Nvidia’s chief executive Jensen Huang, visited Taiwan eight times between 2024 and 2025. The information was disclosed on Thursday by a minister on the island, who stated that the authorities responsible did not receive intelligence alerts about the woman during the period. Alice is accused by the United States of working for Chinese intelligence while maintaining a romantic relationship with the executive of the American chip giant.
Also known as Huang Le, the businesswoman is a former executive of Megaspeed, a data-center company headquartered in Singapore. According to Washington, she acted for Chinese intelligence. Beijing rejects the espionage accusations.
Alice used a Hong Kong passport to enter Taiwan “under the standard business visitor status” and, at the time, there was “no special alert signal” about her, said Chiu Chui-cheng, minister of Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), during a parliamentary session.
In response to lawmakers’ questions about the businesswoman’s entries to the island, Chiu said records show three visits in 2024 and another five in 2025. There is no record of new entries this year.
The statements came after a report by The New York Times claimed that the United States had advised Taiwan, in 2024, to monitor Alice’s movements.
— At least we, at the Mainland Affairs Council, did not receive any information to that effect — said Chiu: — If we had received it, we would certainly have intensified entry controls and border-flow monitoring.
The minister added that, had authorities received intelligence indicating that the businesswoman posed a threat, she would have been subjected to tighter checks.
“If we had received any kind of critical intelligence such as the one mentioned, that led us to believe she posed a threat to Taiwanese society, we would certainly have flagged it for stricter oversight,” he said.
The government said Taiwan’s security agencies are investigating the case.
Jensen Huang admitted to having an extramarital relationship with Alice Huang, who is not related to him despite sharing the surname. Nvidia’s board opened an independent investigation into the executive following the revelations.
The businesswoman was seen in May 2025 at a dinner hosted by the Nvidia president at a Chinese restaurant in Taipei, during Computex, the island’s main technology fair.
Live footage broadcast by the press showed the executive embracing Alice, who wore a pink dress, while she kissed him on the cheek.
