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It's not the generic 'Chinese' who are at fault, but their government. Economic sanctions, like always, will just hurt the people while strengthening the govern
by iwwr 14y ago
It's not the generic 'Chinese' who are at fault, but their government. Economic sanctions, like always, will just hurt the people while strengthening the government's power base.
- taf2 14y agoto a point... enough economic pressure will eventually trigger revolution... or can at least make it very unpleasant for the government to continue it's ridiculous position
- smokeyj 14y ago> eventually trigger revolution. These are the Chinese we're talking about..
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoThe government is corrupt enough that they might as well could trigger a revolution themselves someday. Interference from us would hardly matter.
- scarmig 14y agoIf anything, interference in Chinese domestic matters would solidify the ruling oligarchy's dominance.
- creativityland 14y agoJust a few to note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Revolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Revolution
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoAnyone starting a revolution now would technically be labelled as a counter-revolutionary (this is the terminology they use at least).
- dobro 14y ago>These are the Chinese we're talking about.. Is this supposed to mean that the Chinese are too tame and subservient? They already had a huge communist revolution -- and two more revolutions in the last 120 years (the Boxer and the Hsin-hai Revolution). Even the last 2-3 decades, they had massive strikes and struggles, and the Tien-An Men square thing.
- jlgreco 14y agoHow is that working out with Cuba?
- pcrh 14y agoThe economic pressure has to be on the people in power, not the man on the street. I doubt those in power are suffering.
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoIts definitely the government, but not officially. Officially there are various technical problems...that are never the ISPs fault. If you get on the phone with them and ask why Facebook is not working, they'll actually say "it must be facebook's problem!". The censorship is not official and all shady, and so going through the WTO doesn't really help.