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We don't have to agree that "kidnapping and imprisonment is good", to conclude that some people need arresting and imprisonment.
China is intentionally playing the rules duplicitously, and so the West is going to have to play hardball.
The opening up to China was based on the belief that we would treat each other as equals.
That has not happened and Xi has made clear that will not happen.
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We don't have to agree that "kidnapping and imprisonment is good", to conclude that some people need arresting and imprisonment.
China is intentionally playing the rules duplicitously, and so the West is going to have to play hardball.
The opening up to China was based on the belief that we would treat each other as equals.
That has not happened and Xi has made clear that will not happen.