Help us make your Unmade in China 2026 Christmas Catalog! https://www.givesendgo.com/take-back-christmas-2026 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has a serious China problem—and it involves an alleged Chinese spy, an affair, and billions of dollars in potentially smuggled AI chips. Even more awkward? Trump reportedly knew about the suspected spy and did nothing. So how close did China get to one of America’s most powerful tech executives? And what does this mean for Nvidia, AI, and US national security?
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang got honey trapped by China
Welcome to China Uncensored, I'm Chris Chappell.
Hey, remember Jensen Huang.
He's the co-founder and CEO of Nvidia.
He's well known in tech circles for his presence
and his signature style.
Black is back and leather is better.
And he's got a close relationship
He's also in serious trouble.
with President Donald Trump.
Because Nvidia has opened an investigation
into his relationship with a suspected Chinese
spy.
That's right, Huang's been honey trapped by China.
But before we dive deep into this sticky mess,
I've got an important announcement to make.
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And back to the honey trap.
The honey trap in question is Huang Le, also known as Alice Huang.
Yes, they have the same last name, no they are not related in any way.
That we know of,
she's the former managing director slash informal CEO of a Singaporean
data center company called Megaspeed,
which has gotten attention for allegedly smuggling
restricted advanced Nvidia chips to China.
And that's not the only thing of Nvidia she's been smuggling.
Spoiler, there's gonna be a lot of those type of jokes.
You've been warned.
Part of the issue with Megaspeed is that it's
an offshoot of the Chinese government-owned company
Seven Road. And it has financial links
to China Electronics Technology Group,
one of China's largest military tech developers.
It's also a tiny company that somehow managed
to import more than 4.6 billion dollars worth
of Nvidia hardware.
Where did all that money come from?
Of course the worst part of all
of this isn't Alice Huang's company buying mysteriously
large numbers of Nvidia servers
that totally weren't being smuggled to China.
It's the New York Post calling the scandal Huang Huang Bang Bang.
Really New York Post?
Huang does not rhyme with bang.
But okay, no, that's not really the worst part of the whole scandal.
The worst part is that according to American intelligence sources,
Alice Huang was a spy for China's Ministry of State Security.
China's top intelligence agency.
And she was passing information back to Beijing,
including who knows what kind of data about Jensen Huang,
Nvidia, and Donald Trump's views
on AI-related trade restrictions with China.
Only, actually, that's not the worst part.
The worst part is that according to the New York Times,
Trump was briefed about the intelligence
findings that Alice Huang was a Chinese spy around October 2025
and chose not to do anything
with the information.
And no one told Jensen Huang.
So how did we get here?
Well, to answer that, we actually have to go back in time.
Uh, no, not like that.
You gave me false hope for the future.
In 2022, the US government under President
Joe Biden began restricting the export of
advanced chips to China.
It wasn't long before various tech companies started popping up in
Southeast Asia to build data centers
and could totally buy US chips since they weren't in China.
Did they also send some
of the chips they ordered to companies in China?
Well, let's just say it's not whether someone will
do a thing, but whether they can.
In 2023, Alice Huang's company Megaspeed split off
from the Chinese company Seven Group,
which is partially owned by the Chinese government,
and set up shop in Singapore.
In June of 2024, Alice Huang went to a party
in Taipei where she was photographed with
Jensen Huang.
We don't know if that's where they met,
but it's the first time they were seen publicly
together.
It wouldn't be the last.
The two started meeting regularly.
Coincidentally, it was also in June of 2024
that Megaspeed's sister company in Malaysia,
Speed Matrix, started buying up massive numbers of Nvidia servers,
enough that the Commerce Department got suspicious
and in September 2024 began
investigating Megaspeed's data centers in Malaysia.
What they found raised alarm bells,
because many of the servers were still
in boxes suggesting they were going to be sent
Somewhere else, rather than installed at the data center.
But there was no concrete evidence of smuggling.
All of this was happening behind closed doors.
And then it got interesting.
In October of 2025, the New York Times published
an article on the Commerce Department's concerns
about Megaspeed, Alice Huang,
and their business relationship with Jensen Huang.
A year later, the New York Times revealed that Jensen Huang
was the target of a Chinese spy plot,
and that Alice Huang was the spy.
Jensen Huang responded to the story by calling
his meetings with Megaspeed normal and not unusual.
I wonder if that was the line Jensen used on Alice.
It happens to a lot of guys.
Nvidia towed the line by describing
the meetings as not unusual or unexpected.
They even said they had investigated
and debunked claims the Singaporean company was smuggling
chips to China.
But that all came crashing down
when US representatives at the House Select Committee on the CCP,
the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,
and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs,
which has never been more appropriately named,
invited Jensen Huang on November 5th to a joint
closed-door briefing concerning his ties to Alice Huang.
And then reports came out a few days ago
that Jensen's relationship with Alice was actually
romantic in nature.
Now, Jensen Huang has admitted he had an affair with Alice.
In response to the story,
NVIDIA insists it has no reason to believe that either national
security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised.
But it's now conducting a probe
into Jensen Huang's extramarital probing.
There are a lot of problems with what happened here.
And a lot of questions.
For one, why didn't Nvidia investigate Jensen
Huang's relationship with Alice earlier?
Especially since Huang reportedly hired
a PR firm known for handling sex scandals as
early as October 2025,
right after the first New York Times article on his relationship
with Megaspeed came out.
Another problem, why didn't the Trump administration,
or Trump himself, tell Jensen Huang that Alice
Alice Huang was a suspected spy.
Was it so they could keep monitoring her?
Or was Trump worried that telling Huang might somehow interfere
with his negotiations with China?
When asked on Sunday whether he talked
to Jensen Huang about the affair, Trump said no.
I have not spoken to him about it. I just know he's a fine person,
but you never know what is going on.
I'm sure, I hope everything's fine.
He's done such an incredible job.
Should he stay on as CEO of NVIDIA?
I think so. Oh yeah, sure.
But then Trump went on record on Monday to say this.
When you went to China earlier this year in May,
did you know about these alleged ties with the Chinese spy then?
No, I didn't hear about it then.
So Trump says he didn't hear about it,
but the New York Times says he did.
Over a year ago.
And as for Jensen Huang, well...
And Jensen totally denies that.
I asked him today, because I did speak to him today,
just to see if he's feeling all right, how you're doing.
I asked him that question,
did you have any idea that she was a spy?
He said, I had no idea that she was a spy,
and I really believe him.
So far, there are no plans to give Jensen Huang the boot.
Part of it is because Nvidia doesn't really have
a successor plan in mind.
As an analyst at Bernstein put it,
Jensen is Nvidia, Nvidia is Jensen.
Jensen runs the thing pretty much top down
and sort of pulls all the strings. He's the top guy.
And they don't have a power bottom.
But here's another question.
Why is this all becoming public now?
All the information from the New York Times
October 29th article came from people briefed
on the surveillance of Alice Huang.
Which has been going on since 2025, so why now?
Was it an attempt at an October surprise
that didn't go anywhere until after the election
when sex entered the story?
The New York Times has also reported on Sunday
that Marco Rubio oversaw the classified memo
to Trump officials that suggested Jensen might
be having an affair with Alice back in spring
earlier this year, before Trump's visit to Beijing.
And yet, not a peep about it to the public.
Until now.
I expected better from Nvidia's next CEO.
So the Trump administration knew Jensen Huang was likely compromised.
Was that why Jensen Huang originally wasn't
on the list of business and tech executives
slated to go with Trump to China?
Until, you know, Trump told Huang to meet them
at a stopover in Alaska last minute.
What, was Trump trying to figure out ways to screw China
so he brought someone with
first-hand experience?
When asked whether he wished he had acted
on the intelligence after the affair came
After it came public, Trump's response was, no, I don't think so.
Why is that? Why not act on it?
Is this some 11D interplanetary chess move?
Or is he just being really stupid? It's literally nothing in between.
And why has Jensen Huang not received a defense briefing
that would have warned him that foreign adversaries were targeting him?
We just don't know. The only thing we do know
is this puts Nvidia in a very interesting position.
Like, I assume Alice was put in various hotel rooms.
Jensen Huang and Nvidia pushed hard to get
the US to loosen its export controls and allow
more Nvidia chips into the China market.
Huang especially called export controls a failure
and said it was not wise for the US
and China to create two distinct AI ecosystems.
He also pushed the idea that shutting Nvidia out
of China would only make China more powerful
...by incentivizing it to develop its own AI chips.
Jensen Huang also criticized those he considers China hawks
for wanting to crack down on AI exports to China.
And apparently that if you're a China hawk,
you get to wear that label with pride.
It's almost like a badge of honor.
It's a badge of shame.
There's no question it's a badge of shame.
Now we know why he hates China hawks.
Because he was getting the China hawk treatment.
But now that Jensen Huang, the heart of NVIDIA,
has been outed as a Chinese honey trap victim,
NVIDIA's stuck in a whole new dilemma.
It's a sticky situation I hope they tipped hotel workers
for cleaning up after.
Now if Jensen Huang or NVIDIA push for more engagement
and business with China, the public
will assume that it's because of the honey trap.
Even before the affair story came out,
public scrutiny about NVIDIA's Chinese interests
were already getting to NVIDIA.
It's trying to clean up its China-friendly image
by ordering data centers to reduce China
exposure.
Though I bet Huang will miss Alice's Chinese exposure.
Now that we know an affair is involved, I'm curious to know what
more the US government can get out of Jensen Huang.
Hopefully next time I report on it,
I can say Huang Huang sang sang like a canary.
After all, figuring out how far Chinese influence
with Jensen Huang goes is critical
for US national security.
But hey, if Jensen Huang really wants to apologize to his wife,
Maybe he can buy her a nice Christmas gift
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