Commentary
America’s most powerful China supporters include our top politicians, businesses, and academic institutions. Their interests are reflected by political groups, committees, centers, and think tanks supported by big money donations, investors, tuition, and media with financial links to the regime in Beijing.
Their relative silence about the dangers of an expansionist and totalitarian state that engages in genocide safeguards over $650 billion in annual U.S.-China trade, and the $2.3 trillion worth of U.S. institutional investment there.
America’s China elites seek the continuance of free trade with the country, and to that end, a minimization of conflict that requires backing down from American values. The principle of prioritizing China profits over the defense of democracies, the international rule of law, freedom, and human rights is also apparent in Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the rest of Asia. Countries and businesses thirst for short-term revenues and compromise their values as necessary….