Oh, you can't possibly be serious, Mr. Gertz! China, home of the cleanest, fairest elections the world has ever known and renowned for the rule of law, honoring of foreign copyrights and patents, is our very best trading partner in the whole world. Why, even our dear congress, who always puts the interests of America and its people first, thinks that they deserve the exalted status of "most favored nation."
Surely there are no such things as slave labor camps in such a progressive paradise! Why, how would we be able to buy so much cheap stuff at Wal-Mart if it weren't for the entrepeneurial Chinese Communist Party guys helping out all those folks who walked into those camps after making nasty remarks about their all-caring glorious leadership and volunteered to work real hard so their American friends could get a TV for cheap to watch MTV and ESPN? That's compassiionate conservatism in action!
That thing at Tienamen Square back in the reign of George 41 was just a big media scam. Ol' George Herbert Walker himself, who is now bein' the daddy that poor Billy Clinton never had, didn't think that all of that fake blood and department-store dummies should influence our trade with this wonderful government. Neither does his son, who is the literal combination of Washington, Lincoln, Reagan, Teddy Roosevelt, and Christ himself in the eyes of Republicans everywhere. Them folks in Beijing is our 'strategic pardners'! Forced abortions and persecution of Christians, you say? Just a fantasy cooked up by some extremist racist right-wing crackpots trying to get in the way of progress!
These Communist leaders are so honorable and trustworthy that we can sell them all of our most advanced military technology without the slightest hint of worry. It's the largest market in the world after all, with more than a billion potential buyers for our smart bombs and nucular missiles. Just think of the money that our CEOs can make! (/sarcasm)
Plus, we can have them manufacture our bombs and bullets FOR us! Why, it's the military version of WalMart. Think of the extra money that we'll have to send to Africa!
In addition, we should just let them "have" the steel industry as well as heavy manufacturing...what with our overpaid union workers and all..great to stick it to them, I say. In our new world democracy-utopia we'll never actually NEED tanks and ships...and if we do, our loyal Chinese friends will certainly sell them to us.
Don't worry...shop!