@davetroy The problem was never democracies "screwing with" the Chinese dictatorship, au contraire; it was the life-supporting, empowering, industrializing and financing that dictatorship, even helping them build their 'great firewall' and the totalitarian panopticon, that created the unrepenting behemoth now going for the jugular of democracy itself globally.
The 1989 massacre should have seen all business with that regime ended for good.
Instead the #CCP got first the Most Favoured Nation priviledges from the USA in 1994 (!) and a welcome party to the WTO in 2000, no check or balances or backstops...