O’Toole: ‘We Need a New Approach’ on China “We’ve been wrong,” Conservative Party Leader Erin O’Toole told The Epoch Times in an interview. “Whether it’s trade practices … whether it’s Hong Kong and the situation with the Uyghurs, whether it’s the South China Sea, intellectual property theft, we cannot allow a country to benefit from the rules-based system where values of human rights are respected, but actually not practice those values themselves.” Observers have noted that since joining the WTO in 2001, China has significantly ramped up its exports but has flouted trade rules and prevented reciprocal access to its market to other countries.