Huawei Could Divide the World
I found this article incredibly naive and idealistic. The divide between China and America isn&#x27;t a mere disagreement about trade &#x27;disparities&#x27; and how IP is handled. The Chinese Communist Party is running an authoritarian, draconic police state that has spent its time quashing human rights, and threatening and bullying democratic nations, all while cynically exploiting its own citizens for increasingly centralized wealth. No amount of cross border trade can alter the fact that China has positioned itself as an enemy of democracy when it stands in the face of hegemonic Chinese power, both abroad and at home.<p>This is a country where the government forced ~10,000 women to be sterilized or see their families imprisoned in 2010, where a report came out not 2 months ago documenting how prisoners of conscience are harvested for organ transplants (the organs in question being sold; it is, after all, _state_ capitalism), a country that joined Russia in preventing the UN from sanctioning Syria after one of the worst chemical weapons attacks...I think since the Iran&#x2F;Iraq war. This is the country that is stripping its citizens of their rights based on an algorithm that takes into account everything they say on the internet.<p>Every country commits human rights violations of some sort or another. No group is perfect. That being said, the breadth, scale, and malicious intent behind China&#x27;s human rights violations beggars belief. These are not the actions of a nation that wants the best for the international community. These are not the actions of a nation that wants to integrate with the international community, except to loot it while enjoying the protections and rights created by that self same community of nations. Huawei is not dividing China from the world; China has done that for itself.