We Don't Have to Trade With China

Yet we do:

The United States is “the biggest threat to world peace, stability and development," China said Thursday, continuing its sharp rhetoric in response to U.S. accusations of Chinese spying and threats to the international order.

 

Is that so, China?:

Since Sunday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has secured a fresh pledge from Thailand to complete a $5.2 billion rail link between the two countries and expressed a willingness to open a “golden age” of ties with the Philippines’ newly elected president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Wang also attended a regional summit in Myanmar, which the military regime hailed as a sign of growing recognition of its rule, more than a year after ousting the civilian government in a coup.

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Beijing has donated 250 million yuan (US$37.4 million) of aid to Afghanistan, fulfilling a promise it made to the new Taliban government last year, according to the Chinese embassy in Kabul.

 

Look at the countries that agreed to cut their own throats because China asked them to.

There will be no surviving for them. 

Trade has enabled China to be the worst it can be:

“To whom it may concern. . .” That’s how the PMO’s June 23 response to Kanter’s June 15 letter begins. The response contains nothing more than a summary of boilerplate talking points from a year ago. The letter refers to Trudeau raising the matter of Xinjiang “at the G7 meeting,” an apparent reference to the June 2021 meeting of G7 leaders in Britain, and refers to Canada’s views being relayed to UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet and the UN Human Rights Council — also from last June.

“I read it and I thought, are you serious? When I got that letter I was so frustrated, I don’t even know if he’s even read it,” Kanter Freedom told me this week.

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Barristers from a British law firm who are representing jailed Hong Kong tycoon and democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai said on Thursday they had received anonymous emails warning them against travelling to the city to defend him.

Lai is among the most prominent people to be charged under a national security law that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong in June 2020 to punish terrorism, collusion with foreign forces, subversion and secession with possible life imprisonment.

Critics of the law say authorities are using it to stifle dissent, a charge officials in Hong Kong and Beijing reject.

 

But it is true.