For a long time we excused China in the hope that integration of our economies would lift China towards Democracy and respect for human rights. We/It failed. For all the things I disagree with Trump about, the trade war is not. I hope the tariffs are increased over time so that the supply chain begins to exclude China. There are other countries that will do it for almost as cheap, and do not abuse the U.S.'s good will so thoroughly.

IMO, the hope that trade and economics would bring democracy to China was delusional from the start. It's the same sort of flag-waving idiocy that assumed toppling Saddam would turn Iraq into the Middle Eastern equivalent of post-war Japan. The US has basically permanently nerfed its own global hegemony barely 2 decades after defeating its only major adversary (the Soviet Union), all because of the idealistic aspirations of flag-waving ideologues that triumphed over pragmatic realists and cynics.

You are probably right, but I think that there was an idea that empowering (by money) a broad swath of Chines citizens would naturally lead to increases in their political power, hence a nation that would lean toward democratic tendencies.

Nobody cares. The international community generally shrugs when something is done orderly and internally.

China has too much money and business opportunities to be thrown away.

Lots of people care, they just can't do anything when every choice in the shops for countless things are manufactured there, and few web stores even list country of origin.