China doesn’t give a fuck what high income countries think about them because we still buy their shit anyway.

Good.

They care about the middle and lower income countries, though, because they can exploit minorities and pay lower income to outsource to them

Guys did you know that China does business with developing countries, just to exploit the minorities??

(which is crazy considering how little they pay their own laborers).

https://www.statista.com/statistics/259451/annual-per-capita-disposable-income-of-rural-and-urban-households-in-china/