> Some simply want to stop China becoming too rich—as if impoverishing 1.4bn people were either moral or likely to ensure peace. Hard to read past this. I don'

> Some simply want to stop China becoming too rich—as if impoverishing 1.4bn people were either moral or likely to ensure peace. Hard to read past this. I don't want an authoritarian government that's committing genocide today and still lying about and covering up the reality of covid becoming too rich and powerful. That means I want to impoverish billions of people? Why is China one of the only countries in the world (other I can think of is Israel) where criticizing their government is a racist attack against their entire population?