[levosmetalo]

Why would it matter if it's an American or Chinese company? It's a sad world where we need to decide about company, product, person, idea, book or whatever based on their perceived country, colour, race, ideology, ...

[Jonnax]

Well I guess at the minimum. China blocks American services in their country like Facebook and Twitter.

For a foreign company to operate in China it needs to be majority Chinese owned.

It can be argued that if foreign companies are not allowed to profit in China, then they shouldn't be able to do so abroad.

Of course being the manufacturing capital of the world, they have a lot of leverage.

[ForHackernews]

It matters whether the company executives live in a democracy with rule of law or an authoritarian one-party state.

I have no qualms doing business with American, Canadian, Indian, Japanese, or European (minus Hungary) companies...

I would be very cautious doing business with Chinese, Russian, or Saudi firms.