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Well the strategy was first to get the Chinese people addicted to wealth before moving on to discuss the issues of human rights (imaging trying to sanction a poor communist country - e.g. north korea - it will have no effect because the citizens there won't rise up in discontent to protect what they have if they have nothing). But given that China is currently the largest economy in the world right now, now is probably a good of a time as any to show that China needs to play fair internationally and locally in order to acquire the consent of other trade members