Profit v. Principle: U.S. Companies Need to Move Out of China

PJ Media ^ | 06/01/2023 | Catherine Salgado

[SeekAndFind]

Hit the road, Jack, and don’t you come back to China no more. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a murderous, dictatorial, oppressive, and anti-American regime. It abuses its own people and works hard to undermine other nations. It’s time that U.S. companies pulled out of China for good.

U.S. companies with branches or manufacturing in China include Apple, Tesla, Starbucks, Johnson & Johnson, Disney, McDonald’s, Yum! Brands (think Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC), Dell, Nike, Walmart, Trader Joe’s, Kellogg’s, Tyson, and Home Depot. These companies get cheaper labor and higher profits while helping an economy completely controlled by the evil CCP. How is this ethically justifiable? Shouldn’t these companies focus on creating American jobs and growing America’s economy, not making us economically dependent on our enemy?

If Hitler said you could have a company in Germany only if you let Nazi operatives work within your company to advance the Third Reich, would you say yes? That’s the equivalent of what U.S. companies have done by operating in China. The CCP is history’s greatest mass murderer, with 500 million victims and counting, and it continues to practice genocide, religious persecution, censorship, and other human rights abuses. It also requires all foreign companies operating in China to accept CCP operatives/plants in their companies.

The Company Law of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was originally adopted in 1993, meaning that foreign companies operating in China have been hosting CCP cells for 30 years now. The Company Law, in its 2018 iteration, states:

Article 19 The Chinese Communist Party may, according to the Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party, establish its branches in companies to carry out activities of the Chinese Communist Party. The company shall provide necessary conditions to facilitate the activities of the Party.

[pas]

A lot of those same traits from the American left.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

“ If Hitler said you could have a company in Germany only if you let Nazi operatives work within your company to advance the Third Reich”

Sounds a lot like America today and all it’s DEI execs.

[DIRTYSECRET]

The US paid ATT for bombing it’s facilities in WW2 Germany.

[ConservativeInPA]

A simple law will fix this. All companies based in the U.S. with operations in China may not expatriate profits from Chinese operations and all products exported to the U.S. from Chinese operations will face the same tariffs as all Chinese exported products. The tariff will be 300% of the fair market value of the product.

We need to find a way too wean ourselves off all foreign made products. The only things that we should be importing are things that we don’t have the natural resources to produce here and agricultural products that do not grow in our climate.

[Fai Mao]

Henry Ford was given a medal by Adolf Hitler.

[Macoozie]

Shouldn’t have gone to the ChiComs in the first place.
They abandoned US workers, communities, and this country.
All for a few pieces of silver.
They ain’t your friend.

Dump them. Lots of other choices.

This sounds like a high-body-count trying to claim a new sanctity.

You sold your skinny arse for decades.
Stay away, nobody wants your shiite back anyway.

[central_va]

It’s time that U.S. companies pulled out of China for good and make things in the USA.

Finished it.

[antidemoncrat]

“Profit v. Principle: U.S. Companies Need to Move Out of China”

But with today’s billionaire owners profit will almost always win out.

[ifinnegan]

“ Henry Ford was given a medal by Adolf Hitler.”

You are loose with facts.

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In July 1938, the German consul in Cleveland gave Ford, on his 75th birthday, the award of the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest medal Nazi Germany could bestow on a foreigner.[82][96] James D. Mooney, vice president of overseas operations for General Motors, received a similar medal, the Merit Cross of the German Eagle, First Class.[82][97]

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German consul in Cleveland is not Adolf Hitler. And I note that the two cited references are not contemporary but from 1998 Washington Post and 2020 Time of Israel.

And what point are you trying to make?

[kaktuskid]

We all know about IBM and Nazi Germany

[Marko413]

Let’s hire Sarah McLaughlin to run continuous ads showing how the Chinese prefer to torture and slaughter dogs before consumption. Run that for a year and no one in the US will like China anymore.