President Biden in condoning China government’s oppression of Uighur Muslim minority: “They’re not bad folks.” Who? The Chinese people? No, they’re excellent folks. But the Communist government of China, which oppresses its own people and threatens its neighbors? Well, yes, they’re pretty bad folks.

But we don’t dare say so, because we’re made ourselves dependent on their providing us with thousands of products. Guess that makes us bad folks, too.