Because it's an unfair competition.

We wouldn't be turning into China if we only banned Chinese companies, if we only blacklisted/punished western companies that spread CCP propaganda (nine-dash line, calling Taiwan a province of China, etc).

To quote HN user stale2002: Tit for tat reciprocity is the basis of most modern trade relations.

Because trade only really works if there's balance and bilateral rules.

Opening your nation to trade, while the other does not, and does things like subsidize their companies to put yours out of business, is not good.

The US should probably play tit-for-tat and ban an arbitrary Chinese company for every US company banned by China.

That way, China understands at least the repressions.

Of course, that policy might not work, as it would just spiral up into a big 'ban fest', but you get the idea.

Banning games is a funny thing, people like games. People are going to be upset.

When people are playing games, they are not agitating.

When people are bored, they think about things like politics.

Not by a large margin, but yes, yes you are, to some extent still.

I just wished you and Europe where as good as your PR, I really and genuinely do

Yet we are allowing human right abuses? I think we only care about money, that's why we allow this to happen.

Just look at Intel right now, apologizing for not using slave labour...

Does it make it better to make our workers compete with people without rights, healthcare, holidays, sustainable pay? I don't have any problem with China they can ban what they want, I would just desire that this open borders crap would require import only from countries where workers have a compatible standard of living of importing countries

No, that's not it at all.

Trade is a serious issue, it has consequences.

If China banned most US companies, the US would have to ban most Chinese companies.