I know it's displacing a dictator and it was under the guise of freedom, weapons, and democracy. But if your family died, does it matter?
What's the China propaganda say? Unity, equality, efficiency?
Why is our murder better?
[0] that is, one brutally murdered innocent child of innocent parents is not really different than some other brutally murdered innocent child of innocent parents.
We need to weane ourself off a dependency on China for cheap goods. We need to decide that we value human life over a cheap phone.
China gets away with what it does because it feeds our need for shiney new trinkets. Frankly, it's disgusting. The world could stand up to China and say it doesn't want it as a trading partner. Maybe that wouldn't even help, but do we really want to be doing trade with a country that operates like China does?
Where are our values?
It's like saying that police aren't a solution to murder - what we really need is to stop killing each other.
That hypothetical president who cared about e.g. Tibet or the Uighurs couldn't have expected any popular intellectual support for that effort, however, since our popular intellectuals act largely to feather their own nests with Panglossian tributes to how wonderful TPP could have been.