because money and leverage. they make it hard to import into china but easy to export and manipulate their own currency to make manufacturing in their country

because money and leverage. they make it hard to import into china but easy to export and manipulate their own currency to make manufacturing in their country cheaper than domestic so multinationals will move manufacturing to china. now no country pushes back on anything they do because it would interrupt the flow of cheap goods. we let them take Tibet, suffocate free speech and democracy in Hong Kong, they are stealing land in Butan and India, they are invading the protected waters of their neighbors in the south china seas, and are threatening to take Taiwan. but we keep shoveling them money and appeasing them because we want cheap shit