Just how deep do Alice Huang’s Hong Kong business links run amid the Nvidia affair?

Alice Huang, the Chinese tech executive accused of having an affair with Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang while allegedly spying for Beijing, has ties to Hong Kong dating back about two decades – and a web of business links in the city, the South China Morning Post has found.

Huang, also known as Huang Le, first set foot in the city 20 years ago to study. Two decades on, company records show she continues to have links to the city, including as a director of a firm that shares an address with a Russian-linked robotics company sanctioned by the United States.

Described by a former classmate as “pure” and “kittenish” during her time as a student, Huang studied in Hong Kong for a master’s degree before rising to become an executive at Singapore-based cloud computing firm Megaspeed International in 2023 – a company that has since faced US scrutiny over suspected attempts to circumvent export controls on advanced semiconductors.

According to sources, Huang was among the first batch of graduates from Baptist University’s master of social sciences in media management programme in 2007.