You think maybe schtupping the CEO of said company might impact his willingness or ability to do due diligence?

For real. And if the US government assumed MegaSpeed's executive was a Chinese spy for the past year, then why didn't they do anything to stop this or add MegaSpeed to export controls? The whole thing wreaks.

I have a pretty easy answer for that. I bet all the money Jensen donated to Trump might have something to do with it. And my suspicion is that someone that doesn't like to do look the other way when someone is colluding with China might have blown the cover on this, let's say Marco Rubio that has presidential ambitions (it will never happen, but still he really wants to).

That would be a much more convincing argument if he didn't have an affair with an executive there who is also a spy. My guess is he did know, the board knows he knows. At least. Helping facilitate the smuggling wouldn't be totally crazy either given these circumstances and his public positions.

Nvidia is expected to have an export compliance program to verify that their products are going where they were intended to go.

Believe it or not, companies are legally required to do due diligence on such things. For example, I work for a huge bank and when there's even the faintest hint of money possibly being funneled through an intermediary to a sanctioned state/person or a company on the Entities List they will absolutely send someone to investigate. Physically, if it is deemed necessary.

A multi-billion dollar deal in Singapore would absolutely require some folks to physically go out there and do some inventory at the very least. It needs to be in the realm of, "We walked the data center and counted how many of our products were installed and we were shown their yet-installed inventory" documentation. "It matches what we sold them." A great big, fancy report. With pictures.

How much would that cost? Basically nothing compared to how much trouble they could get in for not doing that due diligence. Compare how much it would've cost against how much their stock just dropped.

There’s a thing called know you customer (KYC) law. You can in fact be held liable if you can’t prove you sufficiently vetted a customer before engaging in a transaction with them. Saying that you’re right there’s only so much they can do after vetting.