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Every country and company on the planet should of course assume the worst - until free and independent media is free to report on it. Are Intel execs given obj

Every country and company on the planet should of course assume the worst - until free and independent media is free to report on it. Are Intel execs given objective reports by independent journalists who are given access to all areas and are free to write an report as they want on it? Until then, Intel execs should assume that any rumor of wrongdoing in the province is true. It's as simple as that. One simply doesn't get the benefit of "no wrongdoing until proven" without a free media.

jchook 5y ago
Why doesn’t the US impose sanctions on Saudi Arabia for their genocide of Yemen?
- network2592 5y ago
- alkonaut 5y ago
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  - jchook 5y ago
    It's rhetorical -- the US has been ramping up a trade war with China for years now. The US sanctions on Xinjiang damage the region economically and cause more suffering for the people who live there. If the US gov't was truly concerned about human rights abuses, then they would not be so biased against China in particular while turning a blind eye or directly funding other very egregious human rights violations. No the US did not sanction Saudi Arabia for Khashoggi's murder, specifically to avoid damaging their relationship https://sanctionscanner.com/knowledge-base/sanctions-against-saudi-arabia-55l https://sanctionscanner.com/knowledge-base/sanctions-against... > ...the Coalition is conducting an ongoing campaign of genocide by a ‘synchronised attack’ on all aspects of life in Yemen, one that is only possible with the complicity of the United States and United Kingdom. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2018.1539910?forwardService=showFullText&tokenAccess=Hm6yabBswxhnzfhR8RSI&tokenDomain=eprints&doi=10.1080%2F01436597.2018.1539910&doi=10.1080%2F01436597.2018.1539910&journalCode=ctwq20 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2018.15...
    - alkonaut 5y ago
      > The US sanctions on Xinjiang damage the region economically and cause more suffering for the people who live there. So do most sanctions no matter how justified. The well being of those people are the responsibility of the Chinese government. It would be pretty easy to allow transparent media reports in the province if one wanted to show the world that there is nothing bad going on. What the US (or anyone else) does in any other corner of the world is a separate topic and uninteresting in this context.

jchook 5y ago

Why doesn’t the US impose sanctions on Saudi Arabia for their genocide of Yemen?

network2592 5y ago
alkonaut 5y ago
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- jchook 5y ago
  It's rhetorical -- the US has been ramping up a trade war with China for years now. The US sanctions on Xinjiang damage the region economically and cause more suffering for the people who live there. If the US gov't was truly concerned about human rights abuses, then they would not be so biased against China in particular while turning a blind eye or directly funding other very egregious human rights violations. No the US did not sanction Saudi Arabia for Khashoggi's murder, specifically to avoid damaging their relationship https://sanctionscanner.com/knowledge-base/sanctions-against-saudi-arabia-55l https://sanctionscanner.com/knowledge-base/sanctions-against... > ...the Coalition is conducting an ongoing campaign of genocide by a ‘synchronised attack’ on all aspects of life in Yemen, one that is only possible with the complicity of the United States and United Kingdom. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2018.1539910?forwardService=showFullText&tokenAccess=Hm6yabBswxhnzfhR8RSI&tokenDomain=eprints&doi=10.1080%2F01436597.2018.1539910&doi=10.1080%2F01436597.2018.1539910&journalCode=ctwq20 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2018.15...
  - alkonaut 5y ago
    > The US sanctions on Xinjiang damage the region economically and cause more suffering for the people who live there. So do most sanctions no matter how justified. The well being of those people are the responsibility of the Chinese government. It would be pretty easy to allow transparent media reports in the province if one wanted to show the world that there is nothing bad going on. What the US (or anyone else) does in any other corner of the world is a separate topic and uninteresting in this context.