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Free Trade has Failed to Reform China
American Thinker ^ | May 28, 2025 | Ben Voth

Posted on 05/28/2025 5:40:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The promise of allowing China to enter “most favored nation status” in 1980 and entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 was predicated on the notion that insurgent free markets would revolutionize and liberate the largest communist nation in the world. The economic reality of 2025 is that this project has largely failed. Dictator Xi of China embodies one of the most hardline manifestations of Communist Party power in a generation. Previous reforms are now repealed and a pattern of internal and global human rights abuses are better funded than ever and rationalized in a growing technological network of propaganda.

Arguably the clearest indication of human rights failure in China for the 21st century is the massive abuse of capital punishment. Amnesty International in April asserted that China continues to lead the world in this violent act and the past year was the most extensive use of the penalty since 2015. It is likely that the thousands of people killed every year by the Communist government of China dwarf their global rivals in this civil abuse as committed by nations such as Iran and Saudi Arabia. The dearth of details in the most recent report about these killings demonstrates that the insularity of the Chinese state has increased. Credible reports of organ harvesting in Chinese prisons remain.

Genocide remains a serious and egregious mode of conduct by the Beijing government. The well-documented genocide of Uighurs continues unabated after an embarrassing 1936 Berlin-style rationalization of this mass murder at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, where the government audaciously paraded a Uighur torchbearer at opening ceremonies and then abruptly dropped him from actual competition. Chinese government minders violently disrupted media broadcasts during the games to maintain the faulty image of a politically pristine super-state. The ongoing nature of genocidal crimes...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; China; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; War; War on Terror
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1 posted on 05/28/2025 5:40:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

China is selling organs it harvests from still alive prisoners.


2 posted on 05/28/2025 5:51:42 PM PDT by yldstrk (Nothing like the truth)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It was always a fools game. See my tag line.


3 posted on 05/28/2025 5:51:47 PM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

all the free traitors do is LIE because all they care about is the almighty dollar no matter who has to suffer for them to attain it.


4 posted on 05/28/2025 5:53:26 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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5 posted on 05/28/2025 5:53:30 PM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Danes used bicycle troops against the Germans in World War II. I think the Dutch did as well.

The Germans used motorcycles in World War I.


6 posted on 05/28/2025 5:55:14 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

False premise. We do not have free trade with China. We have capitulat3d to the “middle kingdom”.


7 posted on 05/28/2025 5:55:59 PM PDT by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Against Alliteration Abuse)
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To: PAR35

Well, that wasn’t good. This was intended for the next story up about the Ukes using motorcycle troops.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4319680/posts


8 posted on 05/28/2025 5:56:56 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
What sort of an idiot would ever believe that "free trade" would or even could "reform China"?


9 posted on 05/28/2025 5:59:31 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yes, I still remember the vote to give China the preferred trade treatment.
The opponents claimed the need for US industry and job protection and/or need to defend human rights of Chinese people.

The proponents claimed big business and that the human rights will improve if China economy gets liberalized.

Obviously, the opponents were right 100%!


10 posted on 05/28/2025 6:09:00 PM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The government of China is only interested in two things....power and control. They don’t care about anything else.


11 posted on 05/28/2025 6:18:34 PM PDT by teacherwoes (Our Lady of China, pray for us)
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To: Jim Noble

Free trade does not require an “agreement.”

A 10,000 page “free trade agreement” is 10,000 pages of exceptions to free trade.


12 posted on 05/28/2025 6:22:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: vpintheak

Yes. It was ALWAYS a giant lie. There isn’t, and has never been Free Trade with Communist China.


13 posted on 05/28/2025 6:27:26 PM PDT by rlmorel (To Leftists, Conservative Speech is Violence, while they view their Violence as Speech.)
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To: Jim Noble

1990s republicans. I personally spoke with a bunch of them.


14 posted on 05/28/2025 6:30:37 PM PDT by McCarthysGhost
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Started with that traitor Nixon


15 posted on 05/28/2025 6:33:04 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: McCarthysGhost

Schmidt in 72.😂😂


16 posted on 05/28/2025 6:33:52 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: McCarthysGhost

Schmitz.


17 posted on 05/28/2025 6:34:13 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

China is a communist dictatorship, and as such only a revolution will change things. Anyone who believes differently is just naive.


18 posted on 05/28/2025 6:41:16 PM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They’re communists. They’ll die communists.


19 posted on 05/28/2025 7:19:24 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: imabadboy99

Free traders could honestly care less if a country is committing genocide to get their product a buck cheaper see Rand Paul.


20 posted on 05/28/2025 7:21:08 PM PDT by Lod881019
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