> If our politicians believed in human rights then why didn't they do anything to stop China earlier?
They did. Multiple administrations held the belief that if they could pull China into the fold economically, then they would open up.
This strategy was literally the opposite of what the US did with the Soviet Union, with the idea that we didn’t want another Cold War.
Clearly it didn’t work, but until a couple years ago, everyone thought it was.
> If our politicians believed in human rights then why didn't they do anything to stop China earlier?
They did. Multiple administrations held the belief that if they could pull China into the fold economically, then they would open up.
This strategy was literally the opposite of what the US did with the Soviet Union, with the idea that we didn’t want another Cold War.
Clearly it didn’t work, but until a couple years ago, everyone thought it was.