Observation: If you are a multinational company that has the resources to buy entire countries, your cultural origination becomes secondary. Another commenter made a comparison to Canada, but they recently had the snc-lavalin affair that shuffled the cabinet and is still vaguely a topic in their upcoming election.
I'd make the argument that in these countries there are fewer of these incidents and that they become public at a higher rate, and that the public shame is greater than in countries like the US where we know it happens but there will never be any actual public dialog, let alone recourse. Mental exercise: If either of those scandals had happened in the US, what would have been the outcome? For comparison, notice the way that Monsanto managed to export their "trouble" over glyphosate to Bayer, where it escalated into a scandal.
I'd make the argument that in these countries there are fewer of these incidents and that they become public at a higher rate, and that the public shame is greater than in countries like the US where we know it happens but there will never be any actual public dialog, let alone recourse. Mental exercise: If either of those scandals had happened in the US, what would have been the outcome? For comparison, notice the way that Monsanto managed to export their "trouble" over glyphosate to Bayer, where it escalated into a scandal.