We were promised great things when the United States opened trade with communist China.
We were told free trade would expose the Middle Kingdom to Western values of liberty and democracy. We were told free trade would loosen the Chinese Communist Party’s grip on its people and neighbors and soften the regime’s single-minded pursuit of being the dominant global superpower.
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