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I think the concern is that a nation that has literal concentration camps and exhibits any-western thought and agendas is going to become a major power. China

I think the concern is that a nation that has literal concentration camps and exhibits any-western thought and agendas is going to become a major power. China is hardly going to "eclipse" the US. I think the concern is less economic and more geopolitical. It should worry the West that a highly authoritarian nation is becoming wealthy and powerful. It's a reasonable concern, I think. Once China gets hard geopolitical power it will start to export its own way of thinking, just as the US did. But unlike the US, which at least in theory believes in basic rights, China is a literal authoritarian surveillance state with no such values. I worry that state run concentration camps like those in xinjiang will become normalized.

tehjoker 7y ago
Yea, China definitely has problems no question about that. Xinjiang is one of the points I am most concerned with. However, the US doesn't take actions based on anything resembling goodwill towards others (we have a network of torture stations and kidnapping black sites don't forget). In many important ways, the US can be described as highly authoritarian, particularly when it comes to foreign policy (witness combinations of illegal invasions, brutal sanctions, and sometimes decisive support for death squads in Panama, Venezuela, Cuba, Iraq, Guatemala, etc). I do think the world should bring more attention to Xinjing, but I don't think escalating tensions is going to do anything worthwhile (especially when I haven't heard a whit about the trade war being sanctions for humanitarian violations). The trade war is also not going to help American workers, capital controls would do that though.