It is neither the duty nor prerogative of our fascistic Keynesian beltway bureaucrats to tutor foreigners on the principles of free market economics, assuming they know anything about free market economics in the first place. Unfortunately this is not the end of the story. Now comes the unpleasant part. Bevin Chu is an American architect of Chinese descent registered to practice in Texas. Protectionists, like warfare statists, invariably resort to the Orwellian vocabulary of collectivism.
Protectionists operate under a mighty peculiar set of unexamined assumptions .
They seem to imagine that just because an American businessman is a fellow American that somehow the businessman owes the protectionist some sort of special consideration, beyond refraining from violating the protectionist's life, liberty and property. It is most certainly NOT the guiding premise which inspired our Founding Fathers to wage the American Revolution. Merely being a citizen of the same country does not give one the right to dictate how someone else disposes of his economic assets. Sorry, he does not. Not unless he owns shares in the company and can persuade a majority of shareholders to keep him on.