China’s lucrative market and economic opportunities have kept the West distracted from—or tolerant of—its human rights violations, but 2020 saw people waking up to the severity of the matter and the communist regime’s broader threat to the world, an online conference heard. Experts on human rights and international affairs came together on Jan. 14 in a webinar event titled A Way Forward, Part II: Defending Human Rights in China, to review China’s rights situation over the past year and explore ways to prevent future atrocities. “We are critical of and anti-the Chinese Communist Party regime’s repression, but we are not anti-China or the Chinese people,” said Benedict Rogers, the co-founder and chief executive of Hong Kong Watch. “It is precisely because I love the people of China and the culture [that] I want China as a great and ancient civilization to succeed, that I want the people of China to …