<story><title>Why the NBA Apologized to China over Daryl Morey&apos;s Tweet About Hong Kong</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/sports/basketball/nba-china-hong-kong.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cco</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s very interesting that &amp;quot;non-respectable&amp;quot; Trey Parker and Matt Stone responded in the morally correct way and the NBA decides to kiss the feet of despots.&lt;p&gt;Pretty disgusting really. It really shows that the dream of liberalization of China is dead, some thought that we could do it but irony strikes again and instead of opening up China our corporations and institutions have become infected and we&amp;#x27;re in the midst of The Reverse Opium War.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why the NBA Apologized to China over Daryl Morey&apos;s Tweet About Hong Kong</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/07/sports/basketball/nba-china-hong-kong.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>remarkEon</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s the Nets owner&amp;#x27;s response, which adds a little more color to this already contentious issue.[0][1]&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t see a way for the NBA to come out ahead on this. Chinese investment already drives a lot of business decisions for the League, and I doubt that a civics lesson for fans and players about Chinese territorial sovereignty is going to do anything to lower the temperature. Tsai&amp;#x27;s statement comes across as particularly caustic - making an implication that Morey&amp;#x27;s tweets call into question that territorial sovereignty in the same way that e.g. Japanese invasion did. As a sports fan, it&amp;#x27;s tough to remain objective here. On the one hand, Hong Kong &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; integrate - baring some major geopolitical course corrections, and probably a war. On the other, it&amp;#x27;s a little disturbing to see US sports figures - who otherwise are generally untouchable, for the most part - bend over backwards to make sure they don&amp;#x27;t sufficiently enrage China (looks like it&amp;#x27;s too late) over some tweets by a GM who is pretty well liked in the League.&lt;p&gt;As a meta point, I figure this is only the beginning and we&amp;#x27;ll continue to see China flex it&amp;#x27;s financial and population muscle abroad in ways that may seem hard to predict in advance, but are pretty obvious once they happen.&lt;p&gt;[0]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bleacherreport.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2856965-nets-governor-joe-tsai-releases-statement-on-daryl-moreys-hong-kong-tweet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;bleacherreport.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2856965-nets-governor-jo...&lt;/a&gt;
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