What on earth are you talking about? There's no "anti corporate hysteria" or witch hunt against CEOs in this story. Renault apparently got conned by one of their own employees, who told them that he could prove they'd been the victims of Chinese corporate espionage. If anything, the story is about anti-Chinese paranoia leading Renault to act on unsupported accusations.
You must have missed all those newspaper articles and threads on this forum that blame Wall Street for the housing crisis, bonuses that tempted CEOs to "screw the American people," taxpayer bailout of "Goldman's betting on derivatives" and the rest of the nonsense.
I am very happy for you that you missed all that. Please tell me where you live -- I'd like to move there.
You are absolutely correct, of course. The point I was making is that the fraudster would not be so quickly believed if the same thing happened just a month before the crisis. The governments and corporate boards must now run over themselves to prove to the "common people" that they are not covering up for the "CEO crooks."
Go ahead: post something on this board that has words Goldman Sacks --- does not matter what; and then step back and see the sparks fly. This is not a good time for justice and fairness.