Nairobi, March 22 -- This week, as China's President, Xi Jinping, slightly lounged in a seat before cameras in Russia, declaring in soft and warm terms his country's strategic partnership with that aggressor nation, a key turned for me.

It moved to locked when he later termed 'double standards' the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin of Russia for the abduction of more than 6,000 Ukrainian children.

Right there, the space ended in my home for Chinese goods. For, if there is a second 'standard' on whether it's OK to put children on buses to school holidays, waved off by their parents, and then, instead, move them to re-education camps, foreign foster homes, and never return them, then I cannot suppo...