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To: KyrosL who wrote (107508)9/17/2014 12:06:23 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu   of 219061
 
See another angle worth evaluating

When the Western world accepts an authoritarian regime and fawns over its achievements, as it does with China, success stories look like that of Alibaba's Jack Ma. Never mind that his company's gigantic IPO is only possible because the Chinese authorities have helped Ma grow his business and could ruin it anytime, as my colleague William Pesek rightly points out, everyone still wants a piece of the action. When a similarly dictatorial government falls out of favor with Western politicians -- by invading a neighboring country, say, or refusing to curb a nuclear program -- it's the dictator's friends who benefit the most. That was the case in Iran, hit with the most comprehensive sanctions seen to date. That is likely to be the case in Russia, too.


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