For decades, American businesses and consumers have been happy to let the Chinese government get away with anything so long as our plastic widgets could be made

For decades, American businesses and consumers have been happy to let the Chinese government get away with anything so long as our plastic widgets could be made - and bought - for 5 cents less. But the Chinese government is an incredibly malevolent actor by any measure, and the rest of the world needs to rethink its willingness to be complicit in their actions by way of economic cooperation.