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There are good reasons to want America to succeed that have nothing to do with nationalism. In particular, China has a very poor record on human rights, and is the main supporter of North Korea. This doesn't make the company bad, but it's not an irrelevant fact.

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And the US has better records on human rights with all the lawful torturing and countless wars going on?

I'm pretty sure that China has caused less deaths or generally harm to innocents than the US has in the last 20 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_sovereignty_debate#Huma...

As sibling comments say, there is no way that America can attempt to occupy any sort of moral high ground on human rights given the events of the last decade. Where have you been?

Perhaps this would be a wake up call for all the politicians driving the US down in terms of IT progress. Or, perhaps all they care about is money and it won't change a thing.

Cheering for a country based upon an image of that country is the very definition of nationalism.

>China has a very poor record on human rights

Guantanamo

Really? China's regular court system has even less transparency and integrity than the Guantanamo courts, let alone the regular U.S. court system. I'd have more chance of a fair trial at Guantanamo than in any court in China if the party authorities had decided that you were guilty.

When China isn't a single-party authoritarian state, maybe then we can talk.

The US is a single party state. The party's name is "capitalism."

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