China hardly needed to change any views about human rights to make the US its ideological brethren. After all, "enemy combatant" was the American way of dancing around the Geneva Convention, and I doubt that everyone has honestly forgotten Gitmo so quickly.

As for those "small countries that really need our purchases," they're actually beating China at its own game. China's labor practices have been (slowly) improving over the last twenty years, to the point where those "small countries" with no enforced laws against child labor and forced labor (most of the Southeast Asian countries, Sri Lanka, etc.) can provide cheaper labor than China. US companies have moved their outsourcing accordingly.

As for thinking of the bottom line, the "bottom line" is the sole goal of "capitalism," which we Americans seem to be in love with when talking abstractly, but conspicuously brush under the rug when talking about its less moral effects. Case in point, your "we do not deliberately try to hurt other human beings" line is definitely not part of the American way. Not since before the US was the US.

The Chinese gov't is already a huge part of the world community, though it's amusing that "they've gotta be just like an Axis power or a Cold-War-era US proxy nation" is apparently your requirement for officially endorsing their status as such.

You can see how brainwashed American citizens have become these days. Check out the support rate Chinese government enjoyed - surveys done by WESTERN research companies!! The reason believe the craps pit out by CNN and NYT and the likes is that people THINK they are free media and objective. NIOT when it comes to international policics and affairs! They serve ONLY the American interest and particularly US government interest. whoever controls the government. No body forced US companies to go to China to manufacture goods. They went themselves. Why blame China. Don't buy their products and they will not buy yours! Back to middle ages?

By the way, Tibet is not a country and it has been a part of China. Still believe your News Media crap, look up the Constitution of Republic of China in Taiwan and the Laws of Great Qing Dynasty. China had Tibet long before there was a term called 'communism' or 'communists' which by the way were the WESTERNERS' creation and spread to other parts of the world.