For far, far too long people have been willfully blind to the moral costs of doing business in China.
Instead, globalization and economic integration have become tools of Chinese soft power; trade has not caused Western values to erode Communist authority, it has crippled the ability of democracies to use trade to promote values.
Corporations pretend they “stand for values” or, more realistically, that their business in China is ethically neutral.
This threat is not new; it’s been visible to anyone who cared to look since at least the early 2000s.
We’ve long since run out of time to hope it goes away on its own.