Posted on 04/17/2020 5:37:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
Coronavirus is forcing American businesses to reduce or halt their operations in China, but when the crisis passes, business will resume. What CEOs should consider is that Xi Jinping’s authoritarian and secretive response to the outbreak is a microcosm of how his government operates.
James Palmer, senior editor for Foreign Policy, writes, “The hostility to transparency and fear of speaking out baked into the fabric of Xi Jinping’s China can’t be thrown away for one crisis. Transparency is not a window that can be opened and shut at the state’s will when it finds it useful.”
China's mass detention of Muslims and government-backed theft of western technology has led to much talk but little concrete action from the international community. And there is no reason to think Xi Jinping will institute political reforms. Unfortunately, American businesses continue to drink at the poisoned well of Chinese commerce because the economic incentives and potential profits are too large to turn down. Instead of continuing to appease a regime that spreads fake news claiming that America created the coronavirus, American CEOs should decide to value long-term principles over short-term profit.
Last fall, the NBA experienced the competing pulls of Chinese outrage and domestic discontent when the general manager of the Houston Rockets, Daryl Morey, tweeted a message supporting protesters in Hong Kong. China reacted by kicking the NBA out of China and removing NBA games from television. The league tried to appease both sides by defending Morey’s right to free speech in an English press release while simultaneously releasing a statement in Chinese condemning his comments.
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Do business with chi-coms and you’re a traitor. Simple as that.
I plan to treat anyone who continues to do so as an enemy of all Americans.
We need to identify and out anyone who continues this and shame them into surrender.
The pull for the 2nd house at the Hamptons is too great. America is not important to a lot of them. Just like the politicians. America is graft for them.
economic nationalism or more gently put : locally sourced
I just purchased a fire ladder on Craigslist
Looks like it had been around for a very long time and on the outside it said made in China and the wrapper was printed in China.
We will need to undo Decades of lost Manufacturing.
First step: decriminalize corporations in the United States
Businesses who haven’t figured out that China’s government lies and cheats have been living frozen under a rock on the surface of pluto.
I think many times the case they just don’t care.
America is graft for them.
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Exactly right. To some our country is not something to cherish and defend, its something to exploit for greedy ends. Unfortunately, those people have lots of friends on Capitol Hill who are enablers and supporters.
LOTS AND LOTS of enablers and supporters.
They have been selling out America, for the last 30 years.
Time to bring them back home.
NOW.
You have to be one SOB Free Traitor to hear a “siren song” from China, after this.
The Free Traitors are all over this board haranguing for a reckless restart to trade that includes China.
They had 3 years to figure out Trump and get on board with MAGA. He gave them an economy they’re too stupid to understand, fighting him the entire time.
Now, China shows the world it would rather kill, than have balanced trade. It’s “students” are here to learn biowarfare, not how to heal.
And the Free Traitors are screeching and harping for their 30 pieces of silver.
I never liked buying stuff made in China but now I will avoid stuff from China as much as possible.
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