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> China is a sovereign nation Is this how you justify concentration camps?

• pm90 8y ago
  No. I'm merely pointing out that the Chinese Government has certain leeway in which to run their country. Concentration camps must and should be condemned and there are ways to achieve that: targeted sanctions on entities associated with those activities. That's why we have sanctions against Russian oligarchs involved in criminal activities and not against the entire Russian Federation. What I'm arguing against is penalizing the whole country with a trade embargo. That is just bullshit coming from someone who understands very little about how international relations work.
  • d0lph 8y ago
    I don't think we should buy goods produced by actual slave labor, I'm sure there are a lot of financial incentives with slave labor though.
  • gurkendoktor 8y ago
    How should we impose a sanction on the regional government of Xinjiang specifically? Do you really think the gov't in Beijing has nothing to do with these camps, and should be exempt? I'm glad that weapon sales to all of China are banned, not just to imperialistic individuals within the PLA.
    • pm90 8y ago
      There is only so much that you can do with wealth in China; many corrupt individuals often park their illicit wealth abroad in Western nations and that is where sanctions against these individuals (or companies) really hurts them. Sanction enough individuals and you force them to fall in line and discourage that kind of corruption.