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Sort of, but in this case circumstances are somewhat complicated by the PRC's authoritarian government which is prepared to deny market access for political rea

Sort of, but in this case circumstances are somewhat complicated by the PRC's authoritarian government which is prepared to deny market access for political reasons. So it's not the opinions if the people with money to give that are at issue here but the opinions of the gatekeeper, which actually is a remarkable phenomenon.

PeterStuer 7y ago
"prepared to deny market access for political reasons" sounds like some other Western superpower I regularly read about in the news.
627467 7y ago
Was China less authoritarian in the 80s and 90s when mass manufacturing migration between West and East started? The West gave China the capital they are now using. Soft and hard capital and power. It seems cheaper to fight media-propaganda proxy wars than actually do anything about it - as in, promote reversals on this manufacturing divestment.
- CharlesColeman 7y ago
  > Was China less authoritarian in the 80s and 90s when mass manufacturing migration between West and East started? No, but back then many people assumed trade would liberalize China. Turns out they were wrong, at least for the foreseeable future.