Doing business with China in 2021 will look like doing business with Germany in 1938. Profits were more important than Tibet, Hong Kong and the Uyghurs - profits will be more important than Taiwan. Maybe we’ll stop doing business with genocidal communists if they attack Japan? One can hope.
BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs)
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#52Tbh, the article doesn't tell anything unusual. CCP rules by fear and a necessary part of such systems are labor camps. They aren't 731/nazi level evil, but they are still fairly cruel.
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Saudia Arabia also gets the red carpet treatment, so sadly I'm afraid the situation will not get solved thanks to worldwide outrage.
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#54Anyone care to say what they believe should be done, or is this just another mad about things thread? Anyone have ideas? What is the solution?
The answer is war. It's really that simple. Do we want to bear that cost? Personally my answer is please God no, but that doesn't mean war isn't the only real option.
We got South Africa to end apartheid without war. Let's try a boycott before getting all hot with a major nuclear power, right?
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a shame, I feel like it's our duty to boost these things - it's the least we can do. Maybe the HN team could manually do "flag locks" for certain articles that are being brigaded? Reddit has a "controversial" indicator on posts and comments that can help users identify that this is happening(heavily downvoted, but also heavily upvoted and interacted with).
This is way beyond being "controversial". First thing probably, HN team can investigate all China related posts and gather users who flagged these posts and take action accordingly.
What if some of those people are on the HN team?
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#57Anyone care to say what they believe should be done, or is this just another mad about things thread? Anyone have ideas? What is the solution?
The answer is war. It's really that simple. Do we want to bear that cost? Personally my answer is please God no, but that doesn't mean war isn't the only real option.
You must be joking as this kind of war would be WW3 and the end of life. We need to sanction the shit out of the people closest to the problem and get the UN out there to investigate.
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#58Tbh, the article doesn't tell anything unusual. CCP rules by fear and a necessary part of such systems are labor camps. They aren't 731/nazi level evil, but they are still fairly cruel.
They have concentration camps, that means they are at nazi level.
Nazi Concentration camps were called essentially the same euphemisms by the German gov.
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#59Tbh, the article doesn't tell anything unusual. CCP rules by fear and a necessary part of such systems are labor camps. They aren't 731/nazi level evil, but they are still fairly cruel.
They have concentration camps, that means they are at nazi level. Nazi Concentration camps were called essentially the same euphemisms by the German gov.
Harvesting hair and organs for profit. I guess they can meet this level.
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#60I wonder if the CCP will similarly re-educate the people of Taiwan. Dont they have a 9 year timeline to invade it? We should look for a new place to build our chip fabs...