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Re:NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels ga... by Ill_ban_myself on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @03:15PM (#21195997)
China has intentionally conflated dealings with government cartels with capitalist enterprise. Its just a means to obscure what would otherwise be called "treason" and sweep under the rug any notion that your business can be, "nationalized" at their whim.

I don't understand how American businesses didn't learn their lesson in Cuba in the 60's?

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Re:NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels ga... by coldtea on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @03:42PM (#21196333)
What would that lesson be?

US and American businesses did fine business with the Cuban dictatorship of Batista:

"Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (/bəˈtiːstə/;[1] Spanish: [fulˈxensjo βaˈtista i salˈdiβaɾ]; born Rubén Zaldívar;[2] January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and as its U.S.-backed military dictator from 1952 to 1959, before being overthrown during the Cuban Revolution."

I guess the takeaway is: "Do business with friendly dictatorships we helped install, as opposed to independent ones".

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Re:NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels ga... by Ill_ban_myself on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @04:12PM (#21196648)
Exactly!
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