MAC not sure if Taiwan received U.S. warning about Nvidia China spy

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Taiwan's top China policy agency said Thursday it had received no information about a reported U.S. recommendation to monitor a suspected Chinese spy linked to Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳), but could not confirm whether other agencies had been alerted.

Taipei, Nov. 12 (CNA) Taiwan's top China policy agency said Thursday it had received no information about a reported U.S. recommendation to monitor a suspected Chinese spy linked to Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳), but could not confirm whether other agencies had been alerted.

At a regular news briefing in Taipei, Liang Wen-chieh (梁文傑), deputy head and spokesperson of the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), said he could not verify a New York Times report published Tuesday that Washington had advised Taiwanese authorities in 2024 to monitor visits by Alice Huang (黃樂).

"MAC has indeed never received such information," Liang said in response to a CNA question.

Asked whether other Taiwanese government agencies might have received the intelligence, Liang said MAC was not an intelligence agency.

Alice Huang, a Chinese businesswoman linked to Singapore-based cloud-computing company Megaspeed, has come under scrutiny following reports that U.S. intelligence officials suspected her of spying for China and that she had a romantic relationship with the Nvidia founder.

Earlier Thursday, MAC head Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正) told lawmakers that Alice Huang had entered Taiwan three times in 2024 and five times in 2025, with no recorded visits this year.

She entered Taiwan as a Hong Kong resident for business purposes and had not been specially flagged during those visits, Chiu said.

At the briefing, Liang said Taiwan screens visitors from China, Hong Kong and Macao, with heightened scrutiny applied when intelligence or other leads indicate potential security risks.

Without such information, applicants generally undergo routine screening, he said.

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