Nike is willing to act as an instrument of Chinese nationalism, just as firms such as Facebook and Google are willing, and sometimes even eager, to knuckle under to political pressure from governments as different as the one in Beijing and the one in Berlin.
Biden's drift to the left -- supporting health care for illegal aliens, expressing strong distaste for deporting any of them who hadn't committed major crimes -- is illustrative of a Democratic party held hostage by its woke minority.