> Boycotts, disinvestment, and sanctions is how civil rights movements are fought. Boycotting a billion-strong nation is not the same as boycotting Amazon beca

> Boycotts, disinvestment, and sanctions is how civil rights movements are fought. Boycotting a billion-strong nation is not the same as boycotting Amazon because you don't like its labor policies. China is a technically advanced millennia-old civilization with a huge army, vast geography, and a nationalistic population. If anything, boycotts and sanctions will increase nationalist feeling in China and create an unstable and dangerous situation. The U.S. and Europe do not have the economic leverage to take down the second biggest economy in the world without destroying themselves in the process. Furthermore, as liberals never seem to learn, despite the disaster of Iraq, if you did succeed in instigating a "regime change" in China, the result is likely to be immediate destabilization of the whole region and a horrendous civil war with massive loss of life. It will not magically transform China into a happy democracy.