[Brilliant]

Bump the price up a bit, and we'll reconsider.

[satchmodog9]

Piss on China.

[TheBigPicture]

The Solution: Keep Communists Out of American Boardrooms! (Forbes)

...America's policymakers have long encouraged China to privatize its state-owned and state-controlled companies. To allow these entities to gain control of U.S. private companies while still in state hands sends the wrong message.

Also, allowing a foreign government to gain control of U.S. companies is clearly not in our national interest and is contrary to America's free enterprise tradition.

Lastly, state-controlled companies can easily access concessionary funding from their government and the transparency regarding the origins of capital flows is poor and can be easily manipulated...

Link to full article:

http://www.forbes.com/investmentnewsletters/2005/06/28/cnooc-unocal-maytag-cx_cd_0628soapbox_inl.html?partner=rss

[the invisib1e hand]

lemme get this straight. a dictatorship is criticizing the regulatory oversight of a free republic?

this clearly pushes the limits of "double standard."

F*ck them.

[TheBigPicture]

Why on earth would we let China take over UNOCAL when they show brazen hostility towards the USA. Take this joint declaration for example (talk about Cold War language!);

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1436001/posts

[hh007]

You got to love this spin in the Washington Post article: The United States is nominally pledged to come to Taiwan's aid in event of war.

[m1-lightning]

"We demand that the U.S. Congress correct its mistaken ways of politicizing economic and trade issues..

Yeah, and we demand you stop forced low paying communistic labor. You cheat....we cheat. Get over it China.