There's got to be a strong suspicion, in the wake of the Copenhagen fiasco, that China did this cynically and deliberately, just to show that they can, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Remember that their "judicial" system is merely an extension of the state- it has no independemnce whatsoever.

We can in fact do something, but it would be hard and uncomfortable- and that's stop buying stuff from them. It will take at least 20 years of massively expensive goods to re- establish our own industries, and the Chinese would do all they can to maintain their stranglehold.

Poverty and freedom, anyone?