Because there is a difference between doing things to benefit the society you live in and doing things because someone from the govt told you to do it and you a

Because there is a difference between doing things to benefit the society you live in and doing things because someone from the govt told you to do it and you are worried you will get shot if you don't do it. Contrary to what other people are saying, this is actually a perceptive opinion that requires understanding the functional difference between our political systems. One of the main problems with political comparisons that most people make is that they understand the system they live in very well, nothing about any other system, and so they see everything through the frame of their own knowledge. Saying that being responsible to the US govt is the same system as China is just wrong, they are nothing alike, there is no comparison. Also, you fail to acknowledge that this position isn't actually a standard conservative position (if we are comparing to pure theory). Saying that a company should be responsible to: people other than shareholders, and to the govt is a heterodox opinion (practically, this viewpoint is classic Eisenhower Republican though...appropriate venue). But the reason this opinion is controversial is: you have people who don't like their own govt for various reasons (and know so little about other countries that they will make comparisons with places like China), and China has almost totally co-opted the globalist wing of world politics (again, this group usually understands very little about politics...the difference here is that China being like us fits with their globalist ideology, and they are usually getting paid somewhere to support this view). And I don't understand why any of this is controversial. Whether your favoured political tribe is in power or not, you should strengthen your country. And that is self-evidently distinct from doing what China is doing, not understanding this is a grave error. It is nothing to do with "realpolitik". I am not sure what you think that is but it isn't related to anything related to this topic.