Here's the thing though: Even knowing the whole story, that a jerk billionaire is flexing his full legal force on Xu to make his life as hellacious as possible,

Here's the thing though: Even knowing the whole story, that a jerk billionaire is flexing his full legal force on Xu to make his life as hellacious as possible, doesn't change that Xu is a complete shitbird. Xu did a bad thing. End. It doesn't matter who he did the bad thing, we can all agree that it's a bad thing to lie cheat and steal for personal financial gain. The other player in the story doesn't make it acceptable. But people want to shift the narrative to "but what about how bad G-Research is" and that's just the consequence of the first bad action.