Posted on 10/09/2019 6:40:51 AM PDT by C19fan
All of the NBA's official Chinese partners have suspended ties with the league as it grapples with the fallout from a team manager's controversial tweet about Hong Kong.
NBA China lists 11 wholly-owned Chinese companies as its official partners in the country on its website, all of which now say they have halted business with the league, according to a review by CNN Business of company statements and social media posts. CTrip (CTRP), China's biggest online travel website, said Tuesday that it "dropped all NBA-related tickets and travel products" from its platform. Mengniu Dairy, one of the country's top milk producers, vowed to suspend "all commercial cooperation with the NBA."
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Time to stop trade with China. Many other countries that can take their place.
its all about the shoes ..
Maybe just doing your job is a good idea. Why politicize everything?
The NBA players and league have now fallen silent. It’s easy to condemn Trump, but they have fallen silent on communist china and their murderous country.
Still OK to take a knee.
Good................
I don’t follow the NBA or their business ties. But I wonder, do the Chinese need the NBA more than the NBA needs the approval of China? The Chinese are making a political statement, but it could well hurt them more than this hurts the NBA.
What’s an NBA?
China must be the nation that the National Basketball Association represents.
It isn’t the USA.
So they kow down to the Chinese, apologize profusely, chastise the GM that spoke in favor of Hong Kong protestors, and you got to laugh, the Chinese STILL cut them off.
The NBA can go to the devil. I don’t think I’ve watched a game since MJ was playing.
China refuses to be Africanized
Crumble crumble - the big problem with China is their from another planet then the rest of the world.
It really is like Game of Thorns 4000 years of depressive grinding largely pointless civilization. Anything good the Red Chinese just knaw through - termites. They should have kept better books though - Marxist accountants that gonna screw Chinese monetary entry in the global market with president Trump calling you out and collapsing their currency manipulation scheme.
However I imagine most Chinese people are pretty good at dealing with sucky situations. Oh well dirt floors again sigh
I for one have sure been impressed with all the support the NBA has gotten from Hollywood in this matter.
(Is a sarcasm tag really needed here?)
They sold their soul for $$$
The NBA needs China for growth. Basketball is wildly popular there, and the social justice warrior league has worn out its welcome with its former white American fan base, just as the NFL has.
The NBA and its players make billions pushing Chinese-made gear, some of which is made in slave labor facilities. I wonder when they'll be called to pay reparations?
Numerous large companies have massive ties to China, it is not just the NBA.
Pretending that the NBA is the only organization that is sucking up to China is laughable.
Your comment include the forced internship of the Uyghurs? A million of them held in silence and enslaved. You make conservatives look just like the stereotype our enemies and critics use. Congrats, you are an apologist for a Communist government.
The NBA should cancel all goods orders ,NOW
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