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by saiya-jin 1680 days ago
The situation is +-same in more than half of the world, yet people in US largely don't care since its not part of ongoing medialized trade war.

Compare it to Saudi Arabia which gets free pass on basically any atrocity because oil and US military bases. Or Pakistan supporting Taliban and de facto defeating US army in battle of mental attrition in Afghanistan from the shadows. Or Israel which is committing war atrocities on Palestinian population, and running biggest concentration camp in western world (Gaza Strip). And so on.

Sure, they do bad stuff that they view will help them in future to have more homogeneous population. Which will probably end up true.

You wanna 'held them at arms length'? Well slap tariffs on Chinese-manufactured goods, you can start with Apple products.