Two decades ago, the Western world brought China into the rules-based trading system of the World Trade Organization, the argument being that helping China develop economically would entice the communist regime to respect human rights and the rule of law. “We’ve been wrong,” Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole told The Epoch Times in an interview. “Whether it’s trade practices … whether it’s Hong Kong and the situation with the Uyghurs, whether it’s the South China Sea, intellectual property theft, we cannot allow a country to benefit from the rules-based system where values of human rights are respected, but actually not practice those values themselves.” Observers have noted that since joining the WTO in 2001, China has significantly ramped up its exports but has flouted trade rules and prevented reciprocal access to its market to other countries. The American Chamber of Commerce in China said in its 2019 annual report that American …