"The faster we can safely decouple from Communism, Inc., the better."

In PJ Media, Stephen Green writes,

When China began its economic liberalization program 30 years ago, complete with entry into the World Trade Organization a few years later, the hope here was that China would export inexpensive consumer goods to the West, and import political liberalization from the West. Instead, China has remained hostile to foreign ideals, while becoming the world’s largest exporter of authoritarianism.

...When China began its economic liberalization program 30 years ago, complete with entry into the World Trade Organization a few years later, the hope here was that China would export inexpensive consumer goods to the West, and import political liberalization from the West. Instead, China has remained hostile to foreign ideals, while becoming the world’s largest exporter of authoritarianism.

...Apple’s frenemy in American tech, Google, did likewise, pulling a similar app from the Google Play Store called “The Revolution of Our Times,” using similar justifications.

Apple and Google’s kowtowing comes in the same week that the NBA lent itself out as a virtual propaganda outlet for the Chinese Communist Party.

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