[b_b]

I don't think it's too cynical given this move at this point. They have willingly entered into a market where corporations are sponsored for their loyalty to the state, which has done horrendous humanitarian crimes, without which they could have succeeded economically just as well. Seems to me any semblance of a soul has been lost here in favor of pure VC profits.

[PaulHoule]

See

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2018/china

China gets a score of 14/100 as opposed to Taiwan

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2018/taiwan

which gets 93/100.

In my mind we should "Look for the Freedom label" and use this as a somewhat objective measure if we want to have free trade with free people.

[Leary]

Freedom house is a US government funded agency that gives better press to countries allied to the US. A better index is the Democracy Index by the Economist [1].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

[europeanperson]

If they were against doing business in countries that have "done horrendous humanitarian crimes", they wouldn't have done business in the U.S.

[bjlorenzen]

China's actions seem horrendous from our perspective, but at least they are only operating within their own borders. How do you feel about the decades of war and destruction wreaked worldwide by our own government, including the bombing of schoolchildren just this week?

[b_b]

This is some serious whataboutism. Our government may have done horrible things, but that doesn't justify China's in any way either.