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Coke and Huiyuan: The Other Side of the Coin

By Simon Elegant | March 22, 2009 | +

My post about Huiyuan and Coke was not meant to be fair and balanced, to use a poisoned phrase. Indeed, this is a blog and supposed to be provocative and sometimes downright unfair, right? However, occasionally commenters point out particularly egregious lapses as bcredux did in this case:

….the US has already set the tone by denying Chinese companies in the past from buying American companies, such as the Unocal, and putting road blocks when Chinese appliance companies wanted to buy Maytag, for example. Not only that, Lenovo’s purchase of IBM’s computer division almost fell through because of US political interference. Given the hostility of the US when it came to Chinese companies buying US companies, the Huiyan case is long overdue. China is just playing tit for tat for something the US started.

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  • johnsmith9876

    Since China has done it, all US actions are now justified.

  • laohong

    to johnsmith,

    your type certain has problem about who threw the first punch.
    Apart form US opposing Cnooc’s $18.5 billion proposed acquisition of Unocal (though 70% of Unocal’s energy reserves were in Asia which has nothing to do with your paranor security), how can I forget the 3com Corp. case which deny Chinese Huawei’s purchase, only because, I guess, Americans like you prefer their pillow talks to be bugged only by Bushit.

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