Trump has spurred a rush to China for trade salvation. That shouldn’t sacrifice human rights

Maya Wang is deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch. The first year of Donald Trump’s second term appears to have made China, not America, “great again.” Facing Mr. Trump’s volatility, many governments are seeking to diversify their economic ties by pivoting toward more stable-seeming China. When Prime Minister Mark Carney visited Beijing in January, he even proclaimed that a strengthened China-Canada partnership would be part of a “new world order.” But he, like other Western leaders visiting Beijing, made little mention of China’s horrendous human rights record. Indeed, at the World Economic Forum, he argued that Canada would “take…