Pity the poor company that ends up in the wrong person’s investment portfolio. Through no fault of its own, a Chinese company called Uniview Technologies Co. was dragged into U.S. election-year politics simply because it’s in the Mitt Romney family’s blind trust.

It happened in March, when The New York Times ran a story saying a fund run by Bain Capital, the private equity company that made GOP presidential candidate Romney a multimillionaire, had bought the video surveillance unit of Uniview. The Chinese company claims to be the largest supplier to that country’s public monitoring system, which keeps an eye on universities, hospitals, mosques, and yes, Tibetan monks.

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