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.