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It's their dirty little secret--or was, until someone ratted them out. I have to hand it to these folks, very enterprising to have profits so near to their hearts. Patriotism and ethics are just abstractions, but money...that's something to die for. The web is truly an equal-opportunity avenue for freedom lovers and dictators alike. Should war break out between China and the US, would Nortel and Google be allowed to keep their contracts with the Chinese active, or have them interrupted? It is, no doubt, against US law to do at home what Nortel and Google are doing over in China (CENSORSHIP), but what's not lawful here is "fine" to do over there. By this logic, US companies could help bring back slavery on foreign soil while avoiding it at home. Something smells very, very bad here.

What can one expect? Today, corporations are largely peopled (at least in management circles) by Third Way men and women without a country. They are believers in "Transnational Progressivism" and are, in the worst of all ways, patently anti nationalist. And that is not to be confused with *either* anti fascist or anti communist. Plus, diversity has gone global. The most "diverse" companies are ever so proud of how inclusive they are - in their various "geographies" they kowtow to local custom. Conversely, for headquarters personal to critique, for example, sharing dual use technological knowledge with a Flextronics CM operation in the PRC, or, kowtowing to the CCP's despotism, is considered "harassment" of nationals from the PRC who are one's coworkers, be they actually in the PRC or, in the US on H1Bs. Investigate, investigate, investigate. Oh, and enforce export controls to the hilt. This is my tip for the day.

That's a long roll of honor, from Loral (missile technology to China) to Halliburton (oil services to Iran). Their only loyalty is to the dollar, or maybe Euro.