Alice Huang: The Spy Narrative Misses Her Real Business

The author argues that the widespread narrative framing Chinese businesswoman Alice Huang as an intelligence operative misses her actual business model as a commercial fixer and white-glove intermediary. Drawing on corporate records and capital-market investigations, the article suggests that Huang's role in facilitating multibillion-dollar Nvidia chip procurements through Singapore-based Megaspeed mirrors earlier practices of obscuring underlying economic interests and connecting Chinese commercial demand to scarce American technology. Open article →