Hello Paul, I appreciate your feedback.
It is unreasonable to expect China and the Chinese corporations to act against their own interest. Why would they? At the same time, I believe that the US government has enough competent foreign policy professionals (read CIA), who knew perfectly well that China wasn’t going to adopt any US values or copy the US two-party ‘democracy’.
The only plausible explanation, which comes to mind, is that the US government didn’t care about anything except the short-term benefits for Wall Street.
Just as the US government doesn’t really care about the execution of Jamal Khashoggi, as it continues to do business with MBS. It’s not like that US has a good track-record.
And it’s exactly this short-term profit-centric thinking by the US government and Wall Street, that got us where we are now.