I agree with you that we need to be much more careful and rigorous before trading with China, but China's market-based growth since Xiaoping's reforms are the reason hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens are out of poverty now.
It is the new turn to geopolitical hegemony and debt entrapment that we should be careful of, not the incredible influx of wealth that has (wonderfully!) gone to the Chinese lower classes.
Free trade, and the US leading the world charge to open up to China, is the best thing that happened to Chinese citizens.
Things are different now that the state has such an iron grip, and its own intentions, however.
It is the new turn to geopolitical hegemony and debt entrapment that we should be careful of, not the incredible influx of wealth that has (wonderfully!) gone to the Chinese lower classes.
Free trade, and the US leading the world charge to open up to China, is the best thing that happened to Chinese citizens.
Things are different now that the state has such an iron grip, and its own intentions, however.