The degree to which East Asian economies are built to exploit Western liberalism is almost as astonishing as the amount of abuse Western nations will tolerate i

The degree to which East Asian economies are built to exploit Western liberalism is almost as astonishing as the amount of abuse Western nations will tolerate in pursuit of another quarter's profit. The Chinese may participate in free trade, but it's a mistake to assume they've become liberals in any sense. When the Chinese learn about free trade, it's in the context of gunboats shelling their cities to protect drug runners, not John Stuart Mill.