Is the gambler the victim of the casino?
Is the alcoholic the victim of the liquor manufacturers?
Your analogy would be good if Jensen was a sex addict who frequented brothels and China developed an asset at one of these brothels.
But these arent great analogies because you dont have to have sex with a spy to be a victim of a foreign intelligence operation.
The gambler goes to the casino to gamble. And Alice Huang was sent to meet Jensen Huang under normal business pretenses.
The analogy cant quite represent it but its more like the casino sent a dealer-in-disguise to the gambler on some plausible non-gambling pretenses to spy on him. So he's a victim of the casino's spy operation. Then he gambled. Except he's not a sex addict, as far as we know.
There are a lot of scams that prey on vices like greed and lust and envy. The scammers are still evil scammers, and they people they scam are still victims, though at the same time the victims would not have become victims if they hadn't indulged a vice. Both things can be true at once.
Spies are basically just state-sponsored scammers who are after information and/or influence rather than money.
Yes. They can prey upon the people who frequent them.
As I said, I’m not commenting on personal vices. I’m commenting on foreign intelligence operations because that’s the only question of legitimate public interest here, as opposed to prurient gossip.