It doesn't require a very strange chain of reasoning. Lots of people would agree that:

- promising monogamy to someone who loves you, and then breaking that promise, is bad and provides negative evidence about your character

and

- if you're the leader of a very powerful entity, your character is relevant even to people who don't know you personally.

There's also just the fact that when someone is famous, and it emerges publicly that they've broken some norm, there's not really a fully neutral option available to us. We can condemn their behaviour (reinforcing the norm), defend it (weakening the norm), or ignore it (also somewhat weakening the norm, especially if we make a point of ignoring it and suggest that others are silly for caring).

"Is it an American thing?"

It's 'baffling' that someone would think that this is not a social concern.

It transcends cultures and faiths.

We can understand surely that some care less, but the only people who can't understand why this is bad have never been in a relationship.

It’s very simple: billionaires and politicians spend a lot of time trying to control our lives. This is often done through a moral lens: “you can’t do this thing because it’s immoral” where thing can range from making a personal medical decision, marrying the person you love, singing to children, playing on a sports team, or going to the bathroom.

So when one of these representatives of the elite turns out to be not quite so moral, we take special interest in pointing it out until the end of time. If Huang managed a department store you wouldn’t hear much about it.

If somebody promises to be with one person and only one person and they violate such trust that causes me to doubt their integrity. Couple that with it not just being random women but a spy and people below him in the company (a clear me too situation) and I lose all trust in him.

Before you or somebody says they may have had an open relationship then why did he apologize for hurting his wife? Was he lying? If so, then he has betrayed our trust.

I think this is all staged: media acts like average Joe cars, I doubt it. He obviously hurt the wrong ppl, the Chinese spy thing has too many red flags … they say “alleged” and the proceed talking for 25 minutes as if it’s true. Supposedly the secret service the CIA and who knows who else is looking at this for over a year, but they can’t decide which way is it… so yeah timing and all… the board of NVIDIA apparently is the only who cares with who he sleeps so much, but the other theory is that someone via blackmailing them? Anyway, they made their decision, now they have to live with the consequences.

In terms of facts we have someone who was effectively fired no apparent reason, in 48 hours. Scary.

No he is not!

Where do you people get this tabloid stuff?

He's not being investigated for anything. The government did not even sanction the company and woman he was sleeping with, although there are allegations that she was selling GPU cycles to China, that's not him doing it.

Two things can both be bad.

> JH is under suspicion of smuggling sanctioned military-related equipment to his country’s prime foreign adversary.

by "his country" you mean Taiwan/China or US? not sure ethnic Chinese born in Taiwan (China) holding Taiwanese/Chinese citizenship, see foreign adversaries as clearly as you see it