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China arbitrarily bans trade when it wants to "punish" nations: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/china-turns-to-lobsters-wine-and-coal-to-punish-australia-1.1516850

China arbitrarily bans trade when it wants to "punish" nations: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/china-turns-to-lobsters-wine-and-coal-to-punish-australia-1.1516850 https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/china-turns-to-lobsters-wine-and... China has made it clear that it is an unreliable business partner. It is a mistake to do business with nations that don't share your values, as Russia is also currently demonstrating.

pacija 4y ago
This is the price, those are the terms. If you don't like them go buy somewhere else or produce yourself.
- stale2002 4y ago
  So then yes, you agree completely with the statement that was made, which was "It is a mistake to do business with nations that don't share your values". Yeah that's the point.
pokepim 4y ago
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- clouddrover 4y ago
  > And what values are exactly that? Democratic nations which abide by international trade agreements. Nations you can do business with which are governed by the rule of law instead of the whims of a political party or dictator. > We just had president who was white supremacist who called other countries shitholes. America can turn itself into whatever it wants to be. If America can no longer be trusted in business then it's correct not to do business with it. > When business with China was good nobody cared they still had communist party ruling the country. Yes, that's a mistake.
- wowokay 4y ago
  What the heck? Do you somehow only watch the super opinionated stuff on both Fox and CNN, giving you polar opposite trash talk from both sides of the aisle? Lol If anything The first one wasn’t a white supremacist because “he had alot of Mexican friends” and the other isn’t cozying up to a dictator because our gas supply offset wasn’t shifty to Saudi backed oil supplies, not to mention all his work his son has done with sketchy characters that he tries to distance himself from.
  - pstuart 4y ago
    The comment you replied to was unkind to both sides (appropriately) and you turned it into my team good, your team bad. This is why we can't discuss politics here because it goes tribal and off the rails. Our relationship with SA is fucked up and that is regardless of party in office. Parting shot: if you really cared about corrupt nepotism you'd acknowledge the prior son-in-law's self dealing with the SA as well (e.g., a recent $2B "investment"). Let's investigate both sides, eh? Edit: shitting on Trump in the OP also didn't help (because while true wasn't germane to the corruption/foreign relations).
princeb 4y ago
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

pacija 4y ago

This is the price, those are the terms. If you don't like them go buy somewhere else or produce yourself.

stale2002 4y ago
So then yes, you agree completely with the statement that was made, which was "It is a mistake to do business with nations that don't share your values". Yeah that's the point.

pokepim 4y ago

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clouddrover 4y ago
> And what values are exactly that? Democratic nations which abide by international trade agreements. Nations you can do business with which are governed by the rule of law instead of the whims of a political party or dictator. > We just had president who was white supremacist who called other countries shitholes. America can turn itself into whatever it wants to be. If America can no longer be trusted in business then it's correct not to do business with it. > When business with China was good nobody cared they still had communist party ruling the country. Yes, that's a mistake.
wowokay 4y ago
What the heck? Do you somehow only watch the super opinionated stuff on both Fox and CNN, giving you polar opposite trash talk from both sides of the aisle? Lol If anything The first one wasn’t a white supremacist because “he had alot of Mexican friends” and the other isn’t cozying up to a dictator because our gas supply offset wasn’t shifty to Saudi backed oil supplies, not to mention all his work his son has done with sketchy characters that he tries to distance himself from.
- pstuart 4y ago
  The comment you replied to was unkind to both sides (appropriately) and you turned it into my team good, your team bad. This is why we can't discuss politics here because it goes tribal and off the rails. Our relationship with SA is fucked up and that is regardless of party in office. Parting shot: if you really cared about corrupt nepotism you'd acknowledge the prior son-in-law's self dealing with the SA as well (e.g., a recent $2B "investment"). Let's investigate both sides, eh? Edit: shitting on Trump in the OP also didn't help (because while true wasn't germane to the corruption/foreign relations).

princeb 4y ago

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests