> It was because he was directing funds to a Chinese company which did not make any business sense and leaking all kinds of intellectual property to China.

Oh no, not the free market! Is this a leopard eating our face?

I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords, and let IP be consigned to ash.

The free market should be used to benefit $my_country and should be ignored if it hurts my interests. If the free market is hurting my country, then why play by those rules when I can just use my other resources to get what I want?