By kissing up to one of the biggest totalitarian societies on Earth?
Oh well, a number of major US corporations cozied up to Hitler and the
Nazis just in case they won World War 2, so I guess I should not be
surprised that they would do the same with China at the expense of
another nation which did nothing wrong other than happen to have
things that China wanted.
"When elephants fight, the grass gets stepped on." - African proverb
(and they ought to know)