Taiwan's government says it is looking into the visits of a Chinese executive who, according to US officials, is a Chinese intelligence asset and who traveled to Taipei at least twice alongside Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
The woman, Alice Huang, is a Chinese national and a former director and general manager of Megaspeed, a Singapore data center company. She is not related to Jensen Huang. According to a New York Times report published on October 29, US intelligence agencies concluded after monitoring her that she was passing information to Beijing, and she is also suspected of helping move advanced Nvidia chips into China.
"Of course, we keep close track of people with special backgrounds who come to Taiwan," Deputy Foreign Minister Chen Ming-chi told reporters at the Legislative Yuan on October 30. He said Taiwan is actively working to understand the situation, including through intelligence exchanges, but declined to comment further because the case involves cooperation between agencies.
What The New York Times Reported
Citing more than six current and former officials and people familiar with Nvidia and Megaspeed, the Times reported that US Commerce Department officials have been investigating whether Megaspeed, which has close ties to Chinese companies, helped Chinese firms get around US export controls.
US intelligence agencies concluded that Alice Huang was a Chinese intelligence operative who had built a close relationship with Jensen Huang. She appeared with him in Taipei in June 2024 and May 2025.
According to trade records cited by the Times, Megaspeed's Malaysian affiliate bought at least $4.8 billion worth of AI equipment containing Nvidia chips between June 2024 and February 2026, Yahoo Finance reported.
The report also said President Donald Trump was briefed on the matter about a year ago but chose not to act, and that Jensen Huang never received a defensive briefing warning him about her, Engadget reported. Officials reportedly weighed whether briefing him could tip off Alice Huang, who remains under surveillance. The allegations do not establish that Jensen Huang knowingly helped Chinese intelligence or shared confidential information with her.
How Nvidia And Jensen Huang Responded
Jensen Huang told Bloomberg that his interactions with Alice Huang were routine, no different from how he deals with other Chinese customers and executives. He said she has left Megaspeed and that the US government had never told him of any suspicions about her.
He also said Nvidia's relationship with Megaspeed's executives was not improper, and that the company had checked and confirmed Megaspeed had not illegally shipped Nvidia AI processors to China. "We have checked all the GPUs they deployed, and every one has been counted. I think the US government did the same," he said, Business Today reported.
An Nvidia spokesperson said Megaspeed is one of many regional cloud customers and that Huang meets thousands of customer executives every year. The company said customers receive no trade secrets or national security information, that it had investigated the supply chain last year and rejected the smuggling allegations, and that it believes the US government would notify it if it saw a threat to American industry, China Times reported. Megaspeed said in a statement to the Times that its current leadership takes the matter seriously and will look into the allegations.
Taiwan Says Chinese Visitors Are Already Screened
Chen, whose portfolio at the foreign ministry includes North America, said Taiwan works closely with like minded countries on intelligence sharing. "We are always very active in exchanging intelligence with like minded countries, and it normally goes very smoothly, but we won't comment on this specific case," he said.
Liang Wen-chieh, deputy minister of the Mainland Affairs Council, Taiwan's top agency for China policy, said the case was first reported by the media and that the government is still gathering details. Asked whether foreign company executives with Chinese Communist Party backgrounds would face extra checks at the border, he said visitors with Chinese nationality are already screened before entering Taiwan, and that the government would need to understand the specifics of this case.
Interior Minister Liu Shih-fang said that if a violation of Taiwan's national security laws or Anti-Infiltration Act is confirmed, the case would first be handled under Taiwanese law before deportation is considered.
The report adds to growing scrutiny of how Chinese companies obtain advanced AI chips despite US restrictions. Taiwan, home to TSMC and much of Nvidia's supply chain, has also been uncovering Chinese espionage cases of its own.
