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# And we still do business with them?
- URL: https://www.chrismessina.me/blog/and-we-still-do-business-with-them/
- Published: 2005-12-11T01:14:29.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-25T03:33:13.000Z
- Author: Chris Messina
- Tags: Asides

[China confirms it shot protesters](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4517706.stm?ref=chrismessina.me): the government steals your land to build a power plant, you have no second amendment rights, you rise up in protest, you get killed and have no recourse. And American businesses continue to do business there, "[obeying the local laws](http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/11/1946230&from=rss&ref=chrismessina.me)" regardless of the [consequences](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4221538.stm?ref=chrismessina.me). Sometimes globalization really fucking sucks.

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### 💬 Comments from the original post

**Allan** · 2005-12-11 02:42:08

Where'd the post go? Am I loosing it? You said (from the feed) "Sometimes globalization really \*\*\* sucks" -- I was gonna say: what do you mean \_sometimes\_!! :-)

**James** · 2005-12-11 02:57:09

At least China has better demonstrators than the western anti-globalisation crowd: http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2005/12/inherit-wind.html