A massive lobbying effort is underway by powerful trade and interest groups to forestall any kind of government action that would be aimed at Chinese bad behavior.
Large western corporations are hardly in a position to criticize Chinese policies because they have become a big part of the repression and intimidation machine let loose by the Chinese government on their own people.
American-based social media companies allow the Chinese government to dictate what content the Chinese people can see.
The Chinese Communists threatened to pull out of a billion-dollar sponsorship deal unless the NBA played ball on Hong Kong.
The Chinese still pulled out of a sponsorship deal with the GM's team, the Houston Rockets.
In recent months, the U.S.-China Business Council, which represents more than 250 American firms that do business in China, has reached out to aides for Sen. Bernie Sanders and anti-war groups like Justice is Global, one of scores of groups that endorsed letters urging Congress to pump the brakes on anti-China provisions and prioritize climate change cooperation with Beijing.
China has become a very sensitive political issue for Biden, whose son Hunter has gotten very cozy with the Chinese Communists.
Thursday, September 2, 2021
Business Pulling Out All the Stops To Force Surrender to China
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