Or they’re bothering to learn from history. Global economics is complicated. There are many countries with large companies buying many other companies. I work for a Canadian company, didn’t used to but we got bought. Our largest beer and beverage baker is owned by a Belgian company. The trend today might, or might not, continue into tomorrow.
So it's purely a question of global economics to you?
Were you of those in the '70s and '80s who insisted that US trade policy with China should be delinked from their human rights record? That if we extended MFN to them and supported their membership in the WTO, that Red China would join the family of nations and become freedom loving capitalists and democrats?
Well, we gave Red China everything they wanted and more and they are more totalitarian than ever. Have you heard about their crackdown on all religious minorities, about the million or more Uyghurs in detention camps? About their new social score system of merits and demerits that will determine what privileges the Chinese citizens will have, or not have.
All the excuse makers for China and those who'd sell their children to China to make a few bucks have put the US and the world in danger from the biggest and richest communist, totalitarian nation in history.
But, who cares as long as some Americans are still making money selling us out to Red China.