“...the White House has sometimes shown a willingness to tolerate misconduct by allies that it might otherwise criticize, like human rights violations in Central Asia and an anti-democratic crackdown in a number of Arab countries, the report said.”
And, since we normalized trade relations with China, we’ve overlooked a bunch of stuff ‘cause we value their money.
It’s the old question — is a 75% friend a 100% enemy because of that last 25%?
Yeah, like the Chicoms were our friends but they proliferate nukes in their three nuclear shield strategy - nuclear Pakistan to face off India, a rogue nuclear North Korea to face off US and Japan, and a nuclear Iran to tie up US in Middle East. All nuclear aid to these three countries violate UN and international agreements, and China is complaining about Ethiopia. Furthermore it increases the chances that terrorists can get one and nuke our cities. Screw them. Wait till Ethiopia becomes our basing area for the liberation of Sudan from Islamofacist genocide. China may lose their oil source.