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Another holocaust is being committed right in front of everyone. What will the world do now? Sit back and keep taking advantage of the benefits of cheap Chinese

by apta 6y ago

Another holocaust is being committed right in front of everyone. What will the world do now? Sit back and keep taking advantage of the benefits of cheap Chinese labour? Isn't it time to wake up and cut this barbaric behavior if we're going to claim we moved past what happened in WWII?

ianleeclark 6y ago
> Another holocaust is being committed right in front of everyone. What will the world do now? Sit back and keep taking advantage of the benefits of cheap Chinese labour? Note: I'm not defending this, and I'm not looking forward to the coming Chinese hegemony. However, what is the proposed alternative? It's obvious from the past few months just how deeply reliant western supply chains are on China. When the Dutch were at the height of power, they heavily invested into British manufacturing, only to later be taken over as the hegemonic power by the British. The British later did similar with the US, and, in combination with the world wars and exiting as the only possible creditor from WW2, the American hegemony was established. From Volcker onwards, the American economy increasingly turned to financialization and local communities came to be service-oriented economies. We're just historically at the end of a cyclical process of accumulation and China's up next.
- apta 6y ago
  > It's obvious from the past few months just how deeply reliant western supply chains are on China. It's not just the West, but the world in general. Everyone should cut economic ties with them, that's the least we should do. At an individual level, we should boycott Chinese products as much as we can. There are efforts like https://www.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/ https://www.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/, which are a start, but we need more stringent measures. It's also obvious as another poster in this thread mentioned, the pro-Chinese propaganda being pushed on forums like this one. Any sentiment or comments that raises awareness against Chinese crimes and barbarism gets down voted. This should be a wakeup call, they're infiltrating everything.
refurb 6y ago
Are you willing to die or have your countrymen die to stop it? Because that’s likely what it would take.
- apta 6y ago
  Many Muslims are willing to fight to save their Uighur brothers and sisters being genocided.
  - cvlasdkv 6y ago
    How many pre-dominantly Muslim countries have come out in outrage to criticize China's policies?
    - apta 6y ago
      The people are genuinely and deeply upset. Just because they don't go out on the streets in protest, it doesn't mean it's not the case.

by apta 6y ago

ianleeclark 6y ago

> Another holocaust is being committed right in front of everyone. What will the world do now? Sit back and keep taking advantage of the benefits of cheap Chinese labour? Note: I'm not defending this, and I'm not looking forward to the coming Chinese hegemony. However, what is the proposed alternative? It's obvious from the past few months just how deeply reliant western supply chains are on China. When the Dutch were at the height of power, they heavily invested into British manufacturing, only to later be taken over as the hegemonic power by the British. The British later did similar with the US, and, in combination with the world wars and exiting as the only possible creditor from WW2, the American hegemony was established. From Volcker onwards, the American economy increasingly turned to financialization and local communities came to be service-oriented economies. We're just historically at the end of a cyclical process of accumulation and China's up next.

apta 6y ago
> It's obvious from the past few months just how deeply reliant western supply chains are on China. It's not just the West, but the world in general. Everyone should cut economic ties with them, that's the least we should do. At an individual level, we should boycott Chinese products as much as we can. There are efforts like https://www.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/ https://www.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts/, which are a start, but we need more stringent measures. It's also obvious as another poster in this thread mentioned, the pro-Chinese propaganda being pushed on forums like this one. Any sentiment or comments that raises awareness against Chinese crimes and barbarism gets down voted. This should be a wakeup call, they're infiltrating everything.

refurb 6y ago

Are you willing to die or have your countrymen die to stop it? Because that’s likely what it would take.

apta 6y ago
Many Muslims are willing to fight to save their Uighur brothers and sisters being genocided.
- cvlasdkv 6y ago
  How many pre-dominantly Muslim countries have come out in outrage to criticize China's policies?
  - apta 6y ago
    The people are genuinely and deeply upset. Just because they don't go out on the streets in protest, it doesn't mean it's not the case.