"Free trade" with a giant communist country that has threatened the USA with nuclear annihilation more than once is not a good idea!
"Free trade" with a slave labor country will import the slavery right here to our shores.
Marx was right about "free trade" screwing the workers so hard that it makes communist revolution more likely. Of course then America itself would be one giant slave labor camp, perhaps that is the free traitors end game, eh?
Theres a phrase that, Generals are always fighting the last war. Even armchair generals. India and Taiwan (the subject of this article) are not our military or ideological opposition.
Out greatest goal in this new kind of war is to unify the world in recognition of good and evil. Good is in its best position when Western civilization inspires hope everywhere. If East and South East Asia see theocracies or socialist-fascism as viable alternatives, theyre potential obstacles to our fight.
Giving them a path into the first world also benefits us. Not just by denying fascism fertile soil, but by setting ourselves up at the panicle of world trade and culture. A nation of desperate and compelled workers is no long term threat to us. If they dont develop democratically, they cant adjust to modern markets and eventually stagnate. Thats what happened in the USSR. We did not import slave labor from them; we enveloped them because our system is intrinsically better.
In the unlikely event that we inspire the development of a freer and better nation than us that takes our place at the top, like our end around Brittan, I say more power to them. The English people did not suffer by our progress. All boats are lifted by a rising tide.