Joe Tsai is the Canadian-Taiwanese owner of the Brooklyn Nets. He is a successful businessman, an eloquent speaker, and by all accounts a good man. But I am confused as to why he is regurgitating Chinese Ministry of State Security propaganda.

After all, Tsai’s letter attacking Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey’s defense of Hong Kong protesters is truly nuts (as, incidentally, is Rockets’ owner Tilman Fertitta’s bending of the knee to Beijing).

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