Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) minister Chiu Chui-cheng told lawmakers on Thursday that Alice Huang, the Chinese executive accused of spying for Beijing while allegedly having an affair with Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang, entered Taiwan eight times between 2024 and 2025 — three times in 2024 and five times in 2025, with no recorded visits in 2026.
Source: AFP, via News Central TV, Nov 12, 2026
Huang, also known as Huang Le, travelled on a Hong Kong passport and entered under standard business visitor arrangements, Chiu said. "There were no special flags" concerning her visits at the time, he told lawmakers, adding that immigration records show she attracted no security warnings on any of the eight entries.
Source: AFP, via News Central TV, Nov 12, 2026
The disclosure is the latest development in a case Awaaz Punjab has been following since Nvidia's board opened a probe into Jensen Huang on November 8 and China denied the spy allegations on November 9: US officials have identified Alice Huang, a former executive at Singapore-based data-centre company Megaspeed, as a suspected Chinese intelligence operative — an allegation Beijing has denied, and one that remains unproven. Jensen Huang has admitted an extramarital affair; he is no relation to Alice Huang.
Source: AFP, via News Central TV, Nov 12, 2026
Permit revoked, screening under review
A day earlier, Interior Minister Liu Shyh-fang told the legislature's Internal Administration Committee that Alice Huang's entry permit has been revoked, meaning she cannot enter Taiwan again, and that she is currently overseas. National Immigration Agency director-general Lin Horng-en confirmed the agency holds all her arrival and departure records and that she entered on a Hong Kong passport — a route that generally faces fewer restrictions than a mainland Chinese passport, which requires special permission.
Source: Radio Taiwan International, Nov 11, 2026
Liu said the government would review its procedures — pre-screening, interim spot checks and interviews, and post-visit measures — and conceded that if officials had known in advance she was a spy, she would not have been allowed in. DPP legislator Huang Jie questioned how a suspected intelligence operative could visit repeatedly, citing her documented trips in June 2024 and May 2025, including a widely photographed dinner with Jensen Huang at a Taipei restaurant during the Computex expo in May 2025.
Source: Radio Taiwan International, Nov 11, 2026
Did Washington warn Taipei? The accounts differ
Chiu said the MAC had received no such intelligence, after reports that US officials had advised Taiwan as early as 2024 to monitor Huang's movements. If credible intelligence had identified her as a threat, he said, Taiwan would "definitely" have flagged her for heightened review. Taiwan's security agencies are investigating the allegations; separately, an AP account citing sources said her permit revocation took place before the scandal became public, and that her stays were short and in single digits in number — a figure Thursday's disclosure has now fixed at exactly eight.
Source: Yonhap / Taiwan CNA, via Europe Says, Nov 11, 2026
What happens next turns on those investigations: whether Taiwan's agencies find any evidence that information was actually passed, and whether the screening review changes how business visitors linked to sensitive technology sectors are vetted. No charge against Alice Huang has been announced in the reports reviewed, and the espionage allegation against her remains just that — an allegation, denied by Beijing.