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China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist (2019)

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Imagine a country that locked up over 2 million people of a particular ethnic background[0]. Then when challenged about it ran propaganda about it being necessary. When activists rose up in peaceful protest they were assassinated[1].

And we sit idly by.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luth....

Re: China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist (2019)

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"Doing business with those force drafted henchmen kept in with mafia methods, makes you a criminal." So block any trade with china?

US has been doing that with Cuba for a very long time. And how big of a threat is that?

Re: China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist (2019)

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"Doing business with those force drafted henchmen kept in with mafia methods, makes you a criminal." So block any trade with china?

So block any trade with nazi-germany? The biggest engineering hub of the world? Who control whole europe? So sanction the USSR? The whole eastern block? What sort of question is this?

But would refusing to trade with China improve the life of the average Chinese person? Would it free the economic slaves you're concerned about, or would it force hundreds of millions of people into poverty?

What you suggest sounds nice in principle, but it would devastate the Chinese economy and most Western economies too. Sometimes, there is no good choice, no principled stand that doesn't make the world worse. With China, we have to choose between bad outcomes and very bad outcomes.

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Imagine a country that locked up over 2 million people of a particular ethnic background[0]. Then when challenged about it ran propaganda about it being necessary. When activists rose up in peaceful protest they were assassinated[1]. And we sit idly by. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_... [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luth... .

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Re: China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist (2019)

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So block any trade with nazi-germany? The biggest engineering hub of the world? Who control whole europe? So sanction the USSR? The whole eastern block? What sort of question is this?

A real one. One that is not engaged with history revisionism. Or did china do a holocaust, or start WW3? I don't think so. China is a totalitarian dictatorship, but not really the only one, nor the worst. But they are not Nazis. Apart from that, how about blocking trade with countries, that do attack other countries, based on caught lies and propaganda? And various other black things? How would that help?

You do know who the founder of the PRC is, right? If not, it's Mao, maybe that name rings a bell.

Basically the same when Germany would now be ruled by the Nazi party, and you would claim they didn't really do anything bad.

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A real one. One that is not engaged with history revisionism. Or did china do a holocaust, or start WW3? I don't think so. China is a totalitarian dictatorship, but not really the only one, nor the worst. But they are not Nazis. Apart from that, how about blocking trade with countries, that do attack other countries, based on caught lies and propaganda? And various other black things? How would that help?

You do know who the founder of the PRC is, right? If not, it's Mao, maybe that name rings a bell. Basically the same when Germany would now be ruled by the Nazi party, and you would claim they didn't really do anything bad.

Last time I checked, Mao is not in charge anymore. Since a very long time. So anyway, you claim, china is worse, than the nazis regime? I would like to get some evidence of gas chambers then pls.

Also, how many wars did communist china started, compared to the US?

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The actual worst part is you are also describing us:World Uyghur Congress is funded by NED and one should at least query this? , "Depending on whom you ask, the NED is either a nonprofit champion of liberty or an ideologically driven meddler in world affairs." https://www.ned.org/wp-content/themes/ned/search/grant-searc...

Re: China pressured Concordia University to cancel event with Uighur activist (2019)

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Imagine a country that locked up over 2 million people of a particular ethnic background[0]. Then when challenged about it ran propaganda about it being necessary. When activists rose up in peaceful protest they were assassinated[1]. And we sit idly by. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_... [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luth... .

Quite. And anyone of German nationality doesn't have a leg to stand on! Let's not even start with the Turks.
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