I think part of the reason why China pollutes and in general has awful business practices is because their regulation are not in line with ours.

If they were—and if they didn't steal IP from Western companies—their products would be as expensive as ours.

Lastly, you could very well be one of those "dedicated group of "people/bots/etc"." that you're talking about. I see plenty of weird comments defending China here on HN whenever it's mentioned.