Or maybe the NYT learned about the CEO of a critically important company having an affair with a suspected spy, and did what any responsible journalist is obliged to do: Publish it.

Do you really want to die on the hill that having multiple affairs is not a problem? And that a CEO of that standing shouldn't be thinking with his brain instead of other body parts when a Chinese woman approaches him, even more so when she used to be a state media figure and then suddenly became CEO of a billion dollar AI company?