[fown9]

China has an authoritarian government that produces pollution that threatens the entire world, ignores human rights and free speech, and supports dictators in Russia and Africa. If China gets anymore powerful, the world is doomed. We need to curb commerce with China.

[Lorento]

Replace China with USA and see how it looks.

[wmt]

Much further from the reality. The US has huge flaws and gaping failures with these matters, but still compared to China it is objectively way less authoritan, and has a much better track record with respecting free speech and human rights.

[leereeves]

> The US...has a much better track record with respecting free speech and human rights.

The rights of US citizens, yes, but our track record on human rights and free speech worldwide is not so good.

[maverick2]

But when China is at par with what US has been, China's record of human rights and free speech worldwide will be much worse than that of US.

[newuser88273]

...and watch China flood the US with dollars (it has a few of those, y'know?), halt all Apple smartphone production and lobby hard and successfully to finally replace the petrodollar?

Maybe all-out war is not the fitting answer to what was, realistically, a tempest in a teapot.