I guess I have a historical enough view that I'm not so unshakably sure that the good old USA is absolutely right in every policy. Which from your tone, you s

I guess I have a historical enough view that I'm not so unshakably sure that the good old USA is absolutely right in every policy. Which from your tone, you sound like you are. I'm not pro China. But I'm not die hard pro USA either. For example, I'm not sure that the US approach to free speech or commercial regulation is the most reasonable, or even the most representative. Plenty of other countries that you probably don't criticize in general impose forms of restriction on free speech that you'd object to (if you knew). Germany has strict censorship laws on several kinds of racially oriented speech. Singapore does too, regarding religion. Yet those are admired democracies. And while we criticize China here for imposing restrictions that impact US companies, I might ask, where were you (or HN) when it had to do with Chinese companies? Where are all the stories about those infringements, which go on every day? So, is the principle here that you truly object to China imposing speech regulations? Or just when it extends to an American company? Hence my philosophical ambivalence about whether we have the right to be so indignant after becoming 10 minute experts on the subject...