But this is exactly what capital asked for and demanded of the working people of the world. This is the development of the world imperialist system according to its own logic. Due to the incredible waste bound up by the first world minority and their lack of relative productivity, Western industry is becoming uncompetitive. Thus, the working majority of the third world is being asked to do/pay more to achieve what capital in the first world, with global financial, economic and political support, has failed to achieve. And China has done so, delivered and achieved what capital in the first world could not. And now capital wants to “punish” China for doing what they explicitly asked of them! It’s ridiculous.