you are dead on. It’s all cool when every private equity shop is setting up shop in China – the next big consumer market, but the minute the chinese EVEN think about acquiring US assets – all of a sudden it’s china – the biggest communist country in the world.

mrj

A bit off topic but this type of response seems to be a recurring theme lately. For Huawei, all the recent anti-China backlash (i.e. Haier and Maytag, CNOOC and Unocal) sure can’t help their efforts either here or in other countries.

At a simplistic level, it’s a bit concerning that Chinese investment in US companies is cosidered a risk, while major U.S. banks (Merrill, Goldman, BofA) investing in state-run Chinese banks is fine (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/19/business/worldbusiness/19yuan.html). I know it’s a more complex issue than my little mind can comprehend but can’t we all just be friends….