China has the NBA in a full-court press
Oct 11, 2019
2 minutes
By Ian Bremmer
N OCT. 4, DARYL Morey—general manager of the NBA’s Houston Rockets—hit send on a tweet expressing solidarity with pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. He didn’t do this in an official NBA capacity; his tweet nevertheless set off a firestorm in China, which promptly set off alarms at NBA headquarters in New York City. Morey took down the tweet, and to
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