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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Full Money.

I'm Chris Hill, joining me in studio this week's Senior Analyst Jason Moser, Aaron Bush, and Ron Gross. Good to see you as always, gentlemen.

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We've got the latest headlines from Wall Street. We'll talk with bestselling author, Leander Cainy, about Apple CEO Tim Cook.

As always, we'll give you an inside look at the stocks on our radar.

But we begin overseas. The NBA is playing preseason games in China.

Last week, Darryl Mori, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, tweeted support of anti-government protesters in Hong Kong.

Suffice to say, this did not go over well with the Chinese government and state-run media.

The ripple effects of that one tweet are being felt not just in the business of professional basketball, but in the business world in general.

And Aaron Bush, I'll start with you as the NBA and its players and executives wrestle with the extent to which they exercise free speech in and about China.

It seems like over the past week, a lot of investors are discovering that the businesses they own shares of are engaged in various levels of self-censorship at the cost of doing business in China.

Right. This is a very big topic. And it's interesting when you think about it. The issue is being framed by the masses as something that's binary.

Companies are either choosing to support democratic values or money. And while there is some truth to that, these decisions are actually pretty complex.

So all of these companies operate in China have to think through because over the years they've grown critically reliant on China in multiple ways.

For example, most of Apple's supply chain is in China. Disney has invested billions of dollars into parks. They have thousands of employees there.

They've literally just made Activision Blizzard's last game. So saying no to China when they want you to act a certain way is more complicated than just money and how it would affect a shareholder or some rich person behind the scenes.

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