US Should(Must) Systematically Embargo China

To preface, my opponents most consistent complaint is that there is not enough proof. Which I could say for most of his points, but rather than not having proof I can’t actually respond to his VERY long post AND include articles within the 8,000 character limit. If you need more specific proof keep a shorter focused post please.1:China's opinion of the USMy opponent is misrepresenting my provided quote. The purpose was to show that China is using the US and that we in fact DO NOT share the same goals.My opponent tries to discredit my quote by saying I didn’t provide polls. I can only wonder why my opponent thinks polled opinion in an authoritarian country matter. We have seen that they are willing to run over polls/people with tanks, polls are irrelevant in China. It is not a democracy and the people’s opinion and well being are SECOND to that of the corrupt party aristocracy; get that point down pat before you continue.We don’t care about powerless radicals, this is not the case with Chinese xenophobic nationalism. This is japan 70 years ago with a MUCH BIGGER chip on its shoulders and bigger sense of entitlement, and frankly, more potential to threaten everything. 2: china's corruptionI feel the need to educate my opponent. He is obviously not familiar with the very nature of society and culture in current China. He should look into the cultural business relations of the Chinese known as ‘guanxi.’ Their entire business culture revolves around corruption, nepotism, and cronyism. This came from the corruption within the CCP, which has now disseminated into almost every corner of society. Corruption is the Chinese standard. Anyone who has done business in China before knows they need their manufacturers to be observed closely or they will cut corners to pocket money and deliver an inferior product. I’ve worked at no less than 3 such companies.The fact he has to ask for proof of something a simple google search will find for him is telling of his ignorance of Chinese facts. Here is a map, look on the wiki page I got it from for plenty for facts and detailshttp://en.wikipedia.org...If you know much about stocks you would know that Chinese stocks are generally not trusted since their finances are known to be fudged fairly often. Many countries besides the US also say the Chinese lie on their defense and internal security budget. Which is very likely. so since you trust Xi at his word why not trust several more countries with better reputations on their reports? No logic if not.Second, what we need to see is that corrupt or not, the US is not being harmed by china being corrupt.If they are corrupt with their own people how do you possibly expect them to deal fairly with you? No logic. And it is immoral to ignore someone’s evils just because they don’t touch you.Third: it has grown from 3% of the population to about 40%My opponent is entirely incorrect. This is a report that refences the Chinese bureau’s directly as only having 23% middle class population, almost HALF what my opponent claimed. http://www.dw.de... article dated to this year.So you want to plan the next decade of foreign policy on both the assumption that the middle class will grow that fast AND that it automatically means it will bring democracy? I find both arguments unpersuasive since Tiananmen Square. China’s middle class in not going be that big, the GOAL is 40% for 2020, forget about 60%. Read the article.Also my opponent should provide clear proof for why we should believe it will lead to democracy, passing of proxy bills and rights for appeasement is standard authoritarian practice. All the political, economic, and military power is still completely in the hands of a corrupt few. Everything else is merely lip service, that can be revoked when they feel like it. They have no constraints on their power, no constitution, anything and everything is given at their leisure. You are assuming they operate on the same system as we in the West, so wrong.I am unconvinced by my opponents claims that the status quo is a shift towards democracy, he is making heavy assumptions about the values of peoples a world away from him, he is also not considering the facts I pointed out.(higher spending on oppression, tightening of censoring, and still no freedom of association, and the CCP still has a death grip on every aspect of everything) The CCP have gain legitimacy by opening up trade, in combination with Chinese fear of the unknown and LONG history of just bowing(kowtowing) to tyrants, there is no reason to believe democracy is any closer to realization. Instead we have seen democracy activists be harassed and some chased clear out of China. A blind lawyer, Nobel prize winner, and a world renowned artist. Just to name a few.My opponent states that china"s leader sent troops into India and thus it is volatile. first, I don"t se how that is possible given that XI Jinping has only been the leader since February.Yes, he took power in Feb, and the intrusion into India was 6 weeks ago. What do you not see as possible? 3: china wants to declare war on the US I never said this, rather I would say they will never declare war until they undermine us sufficiently. I refuse to let that happen, and this is exactly what they are doing. Thus the embargo. I would be perfectly fine to wait until china becomes aggressive towards us. why? because it would be foolish to attack now given there is literally no reason I never proposed an attack, and I’m fine with waiting for them to attack us or someone else too. But I just don't find it wise to let them make money off us just fund more weapons, aggression, and oppression, and gain legitamacy for their illegitimate government. first: the only real threat my opponent has given is cyberattacks which, we don't really even know comes from china. Unless my opponent refuses to believe reports by independent corporations, and a decently long list of countries, we do know the units responsible originate in China. Moreover, our own intelligence has pointed out the PLA unit they accuse of being responsible for these attacks. Based in a complex in the suburbs of shanghai. Why do you seem so flatly willing to take one known corrupt leaders words at face value then ignore a plethora of far more reliable sources? Is everything but what the Chinese tell you suspect? Third: a military arms race does not really matter because 1: they are not racing us 2: we are still way more powerful then them and 3: they are not threatening us at all My opponent is ignorant. The development of China’s weapons have been aimed SPECIFICALLY at US. Area denial, anti carrier, and anti SAT missiles are all an only Anti-US weapons. Even china’s choice of decision of the j-21 suggests a plane meant to quickly and stealthy bomb key US targets. But are you going spoon feed them, pay them, and let them steal our military tech until they do catch up? I mean com’on…. They have threatened Japan and Philippines, might as well have threatened us unless you mean to break our promises we made over 50 years ago. PLA generals have spoken of how they would nuke LA in the event of a war, even though china has said it has a no first use policy. Threats a plenty my friend. Fourth: we could make a similar case for just about every nation that they might possibly attack the US No we could no make such a case, there is clear perceived motive in China, and actually VERY FEW countries that are not our allies have any potential at all to attack us. And you are again straying from the point of this debate, to embargo china, not declare war. Unfortunately I have pretty much hit my 8,000 character limit, even after I had to shorten my responses I gave above. There is much more I could add. I will try to hit on the remaining points I did not get to in another round if the oppurtunity presents.