Taiwan launches counterintelligence probe linked to Jensen Huang; investigates Chinese spy’s entry into Taiwan

[Financial News] Taiwan’s government has launched a counterintelligence investigation into a spy scandal involving Jensen Huang, CEO of U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor company NVIDIA Corporation. The move comes because an individual known to be a Chinese spy frequently met with Huang in Taiwan.
According to Taiwanese media outlets including United Daily News and Liberty Times, Liu Shih-fang, Taiwan’s Minister of the Interior, told reporters at the Legislative Yuan (the legislature) on the 10th that, regarding Jensen Huang and the case, “National security authorities are actively investigating, and the Ministry of the Interior is also cooperating.” Liu did not disclose the specific targets or scope of the investigation.
Earlier, Jensen Huang acknowledged in an internal announcement on the 8th (local time) that he had had an affair. U.S. media had previously reported that Huang was having an affair with Alice Huang, a 42-year-old Chinese national said to be a former executive at Singapore-based AI cloud company Megaspeed International (Chinese name: Huang Le). U.S. intelligence agencies believed Alice Huang had been recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security and concluded that she had leaked information related to Huang and NVIDIA to China.
Alice Huang apparently first met Jensen Huang at an NVIDIA event in California in early 2024, and the two also appeared together at the Computex event in Taiwan that June. In Taipei, Taiwan, last May, the two were photographed kissing each other on the cheek after dining with other technology industry figures and getting into the same vehicle.
On the 10th, Chen Ming-chi, Taiwan’s Deputy Foreign Minister, said of Alice Huang’s entry into Taiwan, “We will not disclose to the public what status she entered under,” adding, “The government is taking the necessary preventive measures.”
Chen added, “For people who comply with the rules and have no criminal record in Taiwan, we do not impose unnecessary restrictions on travel into or out of Taiwan or on interactions with Taiwanese figures, apart from considerations necessary for national security.” He stressed that the case demonstrated the importance of economic security to the global economy and high-tech industries, and that Taiwan’s government also takes related issues seriously.
Meanwhile, Chiu Chui-cheng, chairman of Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council, the agency responsible for mainland China affairs, claimed that China’s use of women to gather information was a typical tactic.


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