NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts
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#2That's the point. The scale of China's reaction is obviously not because of the tweet itself but because of the trade war.
The message is that the US have a lot to lose if China starts to also effectively blacklist American companies like the US try to do to Chinese companies...
Edit: Someone should explain why now on HN a comment like this one that simply tries to look beyond the obvious and to discuss current issues with a bit more depth is received so negatively as soon as posted.
Re: NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts
#3Not all costs are monetary. The long term ramifications of our businesses cow-towing to mass-murdering authoritarians is far greater than potential profits.
Re: NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts
#4Good, there shouldn’t be money in sports.
Re: NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts
#5Not all costs are monetary. The long term ramifications of our businesses cow-towing to mass-murdering authoritarians is far greater than potential profits.
I can't tell if you're talking about china or america.
Re: NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts
#6Good, there shouldn’t be money in sports.
Why would anybody play sports then?
Re: NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts
#7Not all costs are monetary. The long term ramifications of our businesses cow-towing to mass-murdering authoritarians is far greater than potential profits.
I can't tell if you're talking about china or america.
He's talking about China, don't be obtuse, America, while being horrendous abroad, is no where near as bad as China would be in Americas position if the treatment of their own subjects is any indication.
Re: NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts
#8Not all costs are monetary. The long term ramifications of our businesses cow-towing to mass-murdering authoritarians is far greater than potential profits.
Appropriately enough, the term you’re looking for is kowtowing (not towing cows), a Chinese term for a deep bow of respect.
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#10That's the point. The scale of China's reaction is obviously not because of the tweet itself but because of the trade war. The message is that the US have a lot to lose if China starts to also effectively blacklist American companies like the US try to do to Chinese companies... Edit: Someone should explain why now on HN a comment like this one that simply tries to look beyond the obvious and to discuss current issue…
Well, we saw with the USSR that decades of Cold War couldn't be defused politically but Levis and Coca Cola went a long way towards bridging the divide.
Now we have China which is basketball-mad but the problem is we can't use the carrot of the NBA to entice them towards us as long as the NBA is willing to trade their product under China's terms for a big enough paycheque. The NBA's attempt to paint themselves as a non-participant is totally unacceptable. You either stand for something or you stand for nothing; you don't get to quietly profit from the situation while declaring you have no position. That's the "good people on both sides" argument we rightly called out as total BS.