China is basically a plantation at this point.

The government sells the slave labour of its people to western corporations and then uses the profits to build up their country and line their own pockets. The Chinese don't have freedom of speech, or religion, they have no meaningful property rights, and their needs are largely taken care of by their masters.....in other words they're slaves.

China is the most successful plantation in the history of the world. Its used western greed to fuel its growth as our own corporations have built up a communist dictatorship because abusing their people and poisoning their environment allowed them to save money by not having to pay a western labourer an honest wage.

And western governments let our corporations do this; because in the end they work for the elite, not the working class.

meh.