"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
On a not-unrelated note, I'm thinking about buying some South Park DVD's. Just a small way to vote with my wallet on the China issue.
It's very likely that going to war with China or imposing economic sanctions would cause more of this rather than less. Doing business with other countries and promoting inclusive political institutions and labor opportunities is the best way we've found of ending these types of abuses.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkistan_Islamic_Party [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Uyghur_Congress
How suspicious that a person talking about mass abuse is part of the group being abused. /s
The WUC is not recognized as a terrorist organization by anyone except China. China labels anyone who disagrees with them as terrorists, particularly religious groups (hello Falun Gong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong).
I'm tired of hearing this refrain. We've been doing business in China for almost 50 years, and they're still doing shit like this, and the whole country is censored, and anyone with any kind of voice gets an immediate visit from the police. When does it end? When have we ever achieved any degree of government liberalization by doing business in China? What exactly does us giving them our money and our jobs and our realestate and our technology and our support in propagandizing their totalitarian regime accomplish?
When the entry requirements are "you must not attempt to liberalize our society or else", one no longer gets to pretend that business will liberalize their society.
You would not be saying that if you were Uyghur right now.
You'd think all the free thinkers on this website would understand the value of thinking differently