What makes you think people who disapprove of getting in bed with the Middle East approve of getting in bed with China? Did you ask them? Or did you want so badly to accuse them of hypocrisy that you simply assumed it to be the case?

There aren’t any people left in business in the US who don’t approve of “getting in bed with china”

- this message was made in china, like your shirt, your shorts, your socks, and so on snd so on.

There's no people who deny travel reimbursements that use Saudi gas.. Does that mean we all need to fly to Saudi Arabia to plan future businesses and garrison death squads in our houses?

I think there's a difference between doing the minimum that is not a disadvantage and making a relationship with an ethical discount country your competitive advantage.

The U.S. has done far more business for far longer with countries in the Middle East than it has with China.

I don’t think your example supports the point you think you’re making.