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The conversation about China has shifted from being relatively peaceful during the Obama years to war like today. The author of this article doesn’t understand how the presidential bully pulpit slowly changes the national conversation to war. Not to say that China isn’t violating human rights. They are. But we, the Americans, are the ones who started this fight by goading them on. Also: the crux of the argument in th…

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Re: China

#12
i applaud your willingness to publish this content under your real name, and also understand your real name is closely associated with your software service.

i understand that gives you a certain amount of power that other employees, say of Apple, may not have. kudos to you for using it fruitfully - sincerely.

i am sure this will come across as tin foily, but i would advise you to monitor your digital assets and maybe even personal ones for probing/attack/etc. you're publishing an anti-CCP piece on a widely trafficked web property and are easily identifiable. you are making an enemy of a powerful adversary.

appreciate the piece and best of luck.

Re: China

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post #3

The conversation about China has shifted from being relatively peaceful during the Obama years to war like today. The author of this article doesn’t understand how the presidential bully pulpit slowly changes the national conversation to war. Not to say that China isn’t violating human rights. They are. But we, the Americans, are the ones who started this fight by goading them on. Also: the crux of the argument in th…

I don't know why you are being downvoted. Yours in an unpopular but a valid opinion.

Re: China

#14
The problem is that doing what the author proposes and severing trade relations entirely would be extremely harmful to the 99% of Americans in the short term. Prices for virtually everything would skyrocket far faster than wages. And they would do so for everyone, not just blue collar workers. In the long term things might be better, but it would be a lot more painful to get there than I think most Americans are prepared to stomach.

Personally, my thoughts are in line with the author’s, but realistically we need to be looking at unified trade sanctions on key goods and potentially clamping down on foreign investment in both directions.

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The conversation about China has shifted from being relatively peaceful during the Obama years to war like today. The author of this article doesn’t understand how the presidential bully pulpit slowly changes the national conversation to war. Not to say that China isn’t violating human rights. They are. But we, the Americans, are the ones who started this fight by goading them on. Also: the crux of the argument in th…

> Not to say that China isn’t violating human rights. They are. But we, the Americans, are the ones who started this fight by goading them on.

Americans goaded them on to human rights abuses? I strongly suspect that many Uighurs would be in concentration camps even in America had done everything that Beijing wanted.

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The conversation about China has shifted from being relatively peaceful during the Obama years to war like today. The author of this article doesn’t understand how the presidential bully pulpit slowly changes the national conversation to war. Not to say that China isn’t violating human rights. They are. But we, the Americans, are the ones who started this fight by goading them on. Also: the crux of the argument in th…

Did America block Chinese social media services?

Did America steal Chinese intellectual property and build entire industries based on copying Chinese products?

A trade war doesn't just mean tariffs, it can happen in various forms. American companies did not have a fair game from the getgo competing with chinese companies, it's just that no one cared until now.

So, who started this?

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The conversation about China has shifted from being relatively peaceful during the Obama years to war like today. The author of this article doesn’t understand how the presidential bully pulpit slowly changes the national conversation to war. Not to say that China isn’t violating human rights. They are. But we, the Americans, are the ones who started this fight by goading them on. Also: the crux of the argument in th…

> Not to say that China isn’t violating human rights. They are. But we, the Americans, are the ones who started this fight by goading them on. Americans goaded them on to human rights abuses? I strongly suspect that many Uighurs would be in concentration camps even in America had done everything that Beijing wanted.

Some Chinese sources have cited the War on Terror as a template for their anti-muslim measures. Of course that could be a convenient post-hoc rationalisation.

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The conversation about China has shifted from being relatively peaceful during the Obama years to war like today. The author of this article doesn’t understand how the presidential bully pulpit slowly changes the national conversation to war. Not to say that China isn’t violating human rights. They are. But we, the Americans, are the ones who started this fight by goading them on. Also: the crux of the argument in th…

I would disagree with your 'crux' of the argument, as the majority of the article is discussing human rights violations, capitulation of some of America's largest institutions to CCP demands, and recent protests in Hong Kong.

I would also disagree with calling a fairly well cited call to action as 'half baked repetitions of what we hear every day'.

Could you go deeper into how we, the Americans, 'goaded China on' to commit human rights atrocities.

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