The Chinese government has imprisoned, tortured, enslaved or forcibly sterilized over a million million Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. American billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya's response? “Nobody cares.”
For the most part, Palihapitiya’s statement rings true for most American businesses. They don’t care to offend China — not when there’s profit on the line. Consider Apple: “[T]o quash a sudden burst of regulatory actions,” the giant struck a $275 billion deal with the PRC. Then there’s JPMorgan, which found that jokes about the Chinese Communist Party are no laughing matter. The Magic Kingdom capitulated to the Middle Kingdom when, in its recent film Mulan, Disney praised the security bureau running several Uyghur internment camps.
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