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>"Do you want your companies to be extensions of US foreign policy?"

No but it would be nice if they at least upheld the same values of the country that they themselves are a product of. Or are values just things you can draw arbitrary borders around when it's convenient?

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Not many disagree with that. The question is whether it should be enforced by politics or if people/companies can be allowed to make the decisions themselves.

It depends upon what the decisions made are. At a certain point it will reach the level that voters will want it to be controlled by politics, and likely the control will be tighter than if they hadn't crossed whatever line motivated voters to push for control.

The US already enforced some laws on its citizens as they travel regardless if the behavior is legal overseas. These tend to be done to actions that are deemed the worst of the worst. Minor crimes are not enforced globally.

At what point is supporting and working with China going to cross that line, given many of their current actions against unpopular groups?

    it would be nice if they at least upheld the same values of the country that they themselves are a product of.

One could say the same of the government :)

Heh, yes agreed.

Would you like Chinese companies operating in the US to do the same?

What are laws besides a culture's values written down in the form of rules?

I'm only being mildly pedantic here. Obviously, there are some silly laws that don't work here; I'm talking about the large obvious ones that everyone knows about.

>"What are laws besides a culture's values written down in the form of rules?"

Do you really believe that's true when a country has had only a single political party since 1949?

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