"""Therefore, one of the following must be true:

(1) [Unlikely] Huang knowingly supported the evasion of sanctions. If so, he should be fired for breaking the law.

(2) Huang was tricked. If so, his judgement is now suspect.""

No - it's absolutely not a choice between those two things and neither are likely.

A company bought some chips from Nvidia - and illegally moved some to China.

That's it.

Jenson knows many of Nvidias customers. Probably thousands.

He's not 'tricked' because he doesn't have some magical 'judge of character' - the insinuation is preposterous.

--> Companies do illegal stuff all the timee; this one was skirting export laws.

That's it.

He's not a mind reader, and she's probably not a spy either, I'm sure she told the CCP some things because that's how it works in China, just as US citizens tell US gov a lot of things as well.

Ultimately he bears some responsibility, and there's enough concern to look into it, but this is Occam's Razor - the lady was back door shipping gear, just as thousands of business do.

Just as more than 50% of the materials in Russian cruise missiles are 'made in USA' - and illegal 'smuggled' into Russia, and by 'smuggled' I mean sent in the regular mail.