The Taipei Bar Photo in Jensen Huang’s Alleged Chinese Spy Story

At a gathering photographed during Computex in June 2024, Jensen Huang sits at a table with other guests. In a second view, people raise their glasses. The wide shots make it possible to look past the table and see how the room is arranged. Pale columns break up the interior, and plants fill some of the space between them. Taiwanese reporting used those details to identify the likely setting as Opéra Taipei. The photos returned to the news after reports about Alice Huang, whom The New York Times identified as the businesswoman U.S. officials suspected of passing information to Beijing. China denied the allegation. Sources told Reuters that the woman seated beside Jensen Huang in a 2024 Taipei photo was Alice Huang. The photos show who was there and offer clues about the room. The bar sits on the fifteenth floor of ILLUME Taipei, at 100 Dunhua North Road in Songshan. Its own photographs give a wider view of the interior than the gathering pictures do. Taipei Arena and Taipei 101 are among the landmarks the venue lists in its view. The skyline helps orient the building within the city. The useful clues in the gathering photos are closer to the camera, where the columns and plantings appear together. That makes the hotel an unusual map pin. At street level, the point lands on a large building with several spaces inside. The venue record adds the vertical detail that a street map loses. The likely room is upstairs, and the floor matters as much as the address if you’re trying to compare it with the image. The separate venue photograph in the gallery lets readers see the interior outside the context of the gathering. The images were published during the June 2024 trade show, when people from the computer industry were in Taipei. The exact evening remains unconfirmed. Opéra Taipei is a likely match based on the room, and the pin identifies the hotel that houses it.