To everyone shouting "hypocrisy": the primary focus should be on on real problems in the US that need to be fixed, not on China's hypocrisy. Criticism should be

To everyone shouting "hypocrisy": the primary focus should be on on real problems in the US that need to be fixed, not on China's hypocrisy. Criticism should be taken seriously on account of its merit, not on whether the one giving it is perfect. Think about what the policy of not taking criticism seriously when the criticizer is hypocritical would lead to. How many people do you know who are absolutely perfect and completely unhypocritical? Most would say no one, but nearly everyone is going to agree that a perfectly unhypocritical person is at least very rare. So if you won't accept criticism except from perfect people, then that's tantamount to not accepting criticism at all. And is that a good policy? No.