This attitude represents a fundamental misunderstanding about how China works and Chinese attitudes. For westerners, it is hard to understand how interconnected

This attitude represents a fundamental misunderstanding about how China works and Chinese attitudes. For westerners, it is hard to understand how interconnected governments and businesses are in mainland China. China is the most opaque business world we can imagine and Chinese military intelligence has deep connections to Chinese businesses. It paints itself as a free market economy but it is highly controlled and authoritarian. The West has this to some extent, but not at the same scale or connections. US companies are far more independent.