11th November 2026 – (Taipei) Taiwan has cancelled Alice Huang’s visa and banned her from returning, after she travelled there several times on a Hong Kong passport.
Jensen Huang, chief executive of the US chip company Nvidia, has acknowledged an extramarital affair. Reports name the other person as Alice Huang, whose Chinese name is Huang Le, a former director of the Singapore data centre firm Megaspeed. She is about 42. Earlier accounts say she completed a master’s degree in media management at Hong Kong Baptist University and obtained permanent resident status in Hong Kong. Foreign coverage has described her as a Chinese spy. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has dismissed that claim as absurd and as a smear.
On 10th November, the New York Times reported that she entered Taiwan several times on a Hong Kong passport, and that from 2024 the authorities began monitoring her visits after the US government recommended it. A separate image from May 2025 shows Jensen Huang at a meal in Taipei with Alice Huang and others.
Interior Minister Liu Shyh-fang and Horng-En Lin, director-general of the National Immigration Agency, took questions at the Legislative Yuan on 11th November. Lin said Taiwanese government agencies hold a full record of her past entries and exits, together with the related information. Liu said that record had been in official hands throughout.
Democratic Progressive Party legislator Huang Jie asked how those arrivals had been made in the open. She pointed to public entries in June 2024 and May 2025, and she noted that Alice Huang was not a mainland Chinese national who had gained permanent residence in a third country. The question was why a Hong Kong passport, used with a business visa and similar arrangements, had been enough to come in so plainly.
Liu answered that advance knowledge would have produced a different decision. “If we had confirmed she was a spy beforehand, she probably would not have been let in,” she said. She told lawmakers the ministry would review its own handling at three points: screening before entry, inspections during a stay, and penalties after the visitor has gone.
