OK then.
Please explain. What I got from the story is that it’s ok to break rules in China, because now that Americans on both side of the political aisle are eagerly making China (through our bone-headed “free trade” deindustrialisation of the USA), the world’s newest superpower by making ourselves weak and broke - the communists running the country, will magically now embrace freedom and democracy.
And we’ll all live happily ever after.
Did I miss something?
Only the entire point of the story.
The story was posing a moral dilemma, nothing more. It may have been, at most, suggesting that there are moral perils to free enterprise sort of like the many examples making the rounds about Socialism. You know, the ones about the guys going to dinner and deciding to pay according to the income of each?
As to your complaint about free trade and China I would suggest China has little to do with our loss of jobs and the decline of our economy. Seventy years of steadily advancing Socialism/Communism in this country are the true culprits.
Labor unions in the major industries and government regulations mandating overly stringent safety and environmental rules, affirmative action and other personnel management rules, and punitive taxes on individuals, business and investors play the biggest role. All of those policies are Communist inspired.
The alternative to free trade is high import taxes. That raises the cost of the products to American consumers or makes the product unavailable to them if the tariff is too high. We already have tariffs on many products including steel, coffee and sugar. Why? We don't grow coffee and the sugar producers would do just fine without protection. However, look at the cost of sugar and coffee in the supermarket. The increased cost of steel means higher costs for many other things like cars, appliances, buildings, etc.
As to the deindustrialization of America, today just our manufacturing sector alone makes it greater than most other countries entire GDP, behind only Germany and Japan I believe.
Free enterprise is based on freedom of choice, private property and freedom of movement. Freedom is the root of free enterprise. At its core is human nature. R. Buckminster Fuller, a genius in many fields, said free enterprise has the unique ability to transform the selfish desires of the individual into a good for the whole population.
Free enterprise as practiced by China and Russia is like being a little bit pregnant. It ain't possible. Either they abandon free enterprise, abort it, or it will grow into a new vibrant free society. If they abort it they will return to stagnation and ruin. That is unlikely since the young people have gotten a taste of success and the Communist oligarchs are getting rich.
Tragically, as Communist nations in the Eastern Hemisphere have learned the lessons of Communism the nations in the Western Hemisphere are moving in the opposite direction.
Obama and his Communist buddies are the worst thing ever to happen to this country. You complain about free trade and Obama and his fellow Communist are still living it the past and want to take us there.
Worry about that if you want to worry about something.