Some in the Greater China region "Jensen Huang resigns due to affair controversy... Is the fact that he is of Taiwanese descent also an influence?"

Regarding the background of former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's resignation following controversy over his affair with a woman suspected of being a Chinese spy, some in the Greater China region are paying attention to the fact that he is a Taiwanese-American, not a white man.

Hu Xijin, former editor-in-chief of China's state-run Global Times, said on social media on the 13th (local time), "Former CEO Huang's tragedy is a wake-up call to all Chinese elites in the United States," and compared him to Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

CEO Musk is involved in politics and has had problems with his private life, but nothing has happened so far, while former CEO Hwang collapsed immediately after Chinese intelligence agencies leaked news of his affair to the media, according to his assessment.

He claimed, “The fundamental reason is because he is a Chinese person,” and “American society was very distrustful of the fact that a Chinese person took control of the world’s most important semiconductor company and set the direction of the development of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry and buried it.”

Also, regarding the suspicion of spy involvement, he said, "There are many who believe that U.S. President Donald Trump is a Russian spy and that the Russian authorities have an important weakness."

Famous social media account New Tan Chin said, "Former CEO Hwang is an American born in Taiwan. His appearance and skin color do not change because of the color of his passport," citing a question on American social media that asked, "Would this result have occurred even if he were white or black?"

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton then said he finished his term despite the sex scandal and claimed, "Many of those involved in Epstein's list are still safe."

“Some people believe that former CEO Hwang has at least two political original sins,” he said. “The first is that he was born in Taiwan but is still Chinese, and the second is that he openly lobbied, saying he did not want to completely cut off from the Chinese market.”

Regarding the background of former CEO Hwang's resignation, Hong Kong media outlet Hong Kong 01 also claimed, "Even American Taiwanese elites could not avoid the 'original sin of being Chinese.'"

He went on to say that in the history of Silicon Valley in the U.S., it is common for tycoons to maintain their positions despite privacy issues, but former CEO Hwang has become a "deadly sin," and that this is because Nvidia was so successful and former CEO Hwang is Chinese.

At the same time, he estimated that the decision-makers of the U.S. national security strategy would not have been able to tolerate a situation where the Taiwanese 'semiconductor emperor' was holding the neck of the U.S. and the world's AI.

The Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China's Zhejiang Province Committee said that the background to the controversy over former CEO Hwang was America's anxiety about AI, and estimated that CEO Hwang's appearance made it easy to use suspicions of espionage.