[macinjosh]

I don't think so, though perhaps it should more accurately be phrased as a COMMUNIST CHINESE business. That is why people care, because the CCP has an aytpical way of doing business that comes with its own risks and potential problems. It really has everything to do with economics and nothing to do with race/nationality/heritage.

[whimsicalism]

It has a lot to do with jingoism/nationalism, albeit maybe not race explicitly (although I doubt the cultural rift between the two does much to help).

I rarely see the same level of outrage against Saudi Arabian oil (yes, yes, a low proportion of gas in the US nowabouts) or things produced in many other circumstances that are at least as "unfree" as they are in China.

Because of that, I find it difficult to believe that it is based off of some principled stand over governance.

[Jensson]

Saudi Arabia selling oil is just them selling natural resources. China selling high tech better than anyone else in the world is signs of the world order changing.

Edit: Personally I am excited that we can potentially have another billion educated people to help solve the worlds problems. I see more and more good things come out of China, so I am optimistic over the potential to trade ideas and not just cheap labor.

[Syonyk]

Careful there. They might decide that the problem that the world needs solved is that China and the CCP don't rule all of it. Yet.

China has been moving in a very, very nationalistic direction lately.