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I somehow fear I will be downvoted for this, but the article highlights how it's very easy for these goods to end up in our supply chains without our knowledge:
by azalemeth 6y ago
I somehow fear I will be downvoted for this, but the article highlights how it's very easy for these goods to end up in our supply chains without our knowledge:
>The Huafu Textile Company is located on the edge of a grey industrial estate in the city of Huaibei, in China's eastern province of Anhui.
> It was to this factory that Buzaynap, featured in the state-TV report, was sent
> [...my own rather selective cut...]
> Amazon told the BBC that it does not tolerate the use of forced labour and that where it finds products that do not meet its supply chain standards, it removes them from sale.
I for one wish it were easier to not buy products from China as a whole. With some things -- food, for example -- it's very easy. With others -- electronics or consumer goods -- it is almost literally impossible. It's quite apparent that they've engaged in an ideologically driven purge of the Uighur culture (much like a concomitant "reforming" of Hong Kong's) -- there's just too much independent evidence to suppress that hypothesis.
If the coronavirus pandemic has shown us anything, it's that we need to be able to be a bit more self-sufficient and (for all nations!) having a national manufacturing base able to make certain goods is a sensible idea. I know that economics ultimately stopped the Soviet state machine from rolling over the civil rights of its populace to quite the extent that it once did; I don't know what that tells us here.
- tibbydudeza 6y agoIt did not stop Stalin and his Red Terror.
- mhh__ 6y agoYou'd need to speak to a proper historian, but in my reading of sources about it it seems we already have a much better understanding of what the Chinese are doing than contemporaries of the Terror did.
- burlesona 6y agoBut it did eventually lead to the break up of the USSR - without WW3 - rather than the Soviets taking over the world.
- XorNot 6y agoThe Soviets were never in a position to overtake the world, and the idea that they were was a US misreading of the spread of communism and the influence of Soviet agitators - who showed up everywhere - as though they weren't doing exactly the same things the CIA were. The Vietnam war, for instance, was prosecuted entirely on the faulty assumption that a communist Vietnam was just going to become a subsumed extension of the Chinese government, rather then what actually happened, which was it became communist Vietnam and continued to vigorously oppose Chinese influence, as well as ultimately becoming fairly integral to the eventual downfall of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia after the war. The "domino effect" was American institutional panic that was encouraged because it led to policy decisions with favorable, easy domestic political consequences and huge handouts to business interests.
- DSingularity 6y agoJust an innocent “misreading”?
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- HenryBemis 6y agoMy thoughts. China will sell. Perhaps not in USA, Edit: EU (not UA), Japan, etc. But how about India, Pakistan, all African countries, all Arab countries? They play the loooooooong game, and they are winning it. I believe that Russia's (and Russians) ideology is closed to Europe & USA's, while China is a full-on dictatorship.
- da_big_ghey 6y agoWe need a "No China" label for goods with a certifying body, just like organic, kosher, etc.
- edbob 6y ago"No Slave Labor" would be better, as China is not the only country with those particular "cultural differences".