Because the way China manages its affairs not only affects the Chinese people, but the rest of the world. Look no further than China’s encroachment on the territorial waters of the Philippines and other parts of the South China Sea. The financial advantages China gains by using forced labor, IP theft, and environmental damage provide China power which it uses to exert force on the rest of the world.

China is still the single greatest threat to world peace, from Tiananmen Square to ethnic cleansing, the government of China is a despotic regime of murderers. Anything the west can do to combat this, it’s a good thing, and shame on any American brand that puts profits over human rights.

Given that Americans have committed more war crimes and human rights abuses than all other countries combined and has caused unimaginable destruction, pain and suffering in the world - I find it funny people complaining that China’s acrions are apparently affecting the world.

I mean, WW2 still counts, right?

Two wrongs do not make a right. This FUD will not excuse China’s criminal behavior.

The US owns 5 colonies iirc so by your argument we should be sanctioned

"let countries manage their own affairs instead of continually attempting to be World Police and stirring up conflict"

What about Cambodia or Rwanada? Those were internal conflicts as far as your definition goes? Was it alright or not? Where is the line?

Division of ethnic groups in Rwanda was a consequence of German and Belgian colonisation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide#Pre-independe...

Indeed. Double standards are common in global politics.