That's Democracy in action right? Institutions lobbying for their point of view.
Chinese embassy lobbies U.S. business to oppose China bills
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#92until china starts moving for better rights for their citizens, i am afraid they should be held at arms length. cannot trust a government that lies that over 1 million people are just being "re-educationed" and "happy" and "want to be there", there is a reason for distrust and it's not "xenophobic" to point out the regimes bs, the people of china deserve a better government. don't even get me started on hong kong. th…
The situation is +-same in more than half of the world, yet people in US largely don't care since its not part of ongoing medialized trade war.
Compare it to Saudi Arabia which gets free pass on basically any atrocity because oil and US military bases. Or Pakistan supporting Taliban and de facto defeating US army in battle of mental attrition in Afghanistan from the shadows. Or Israel which is committing war atrocities on Palestinian population, and running biggest concentration camp in western world (Gaza Strip). And so on.
Sure, they do bad stuff that they view will help them in future to have more homogeneous population. Which will probably end up true.
You wanna 'held them at arms length'? Well slap tariffs on Chinese-manufactured goods, you can start with Apple products.
Re: Chinese embassy lobbies U.S. business to oppose China bills
#93until china starts moving for better rights for their citizens, i am afraid they should be held at arms length. cannot trust a government that lies that over 1 million people are just being "re-educationed" and "happy" and "want to be there", there is a reason for distrust and it's not "xenophobic" to point out the regimes bs, the people of china deserve a better government. don't even get me started on hong kong. th…
Yeah sure but we should do them also hold Israel at arms length for holding 2 million people in a literal concentration camp in Gaza and also heavily restricting the rights of Palestinians in West Bank. Why this is not called genocide when the Uighur situation is, is beyond me.
Both are genocides, without qualification.
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#94I wonder if the onset of globalization and offshoring US factories to China on top of Citizens United will be remembered as the US's "Fall of Rome" moment. The US essentially allowed the government to be bought and paid for by foreign entities and is relying on said countries for most manufactured goods. So now the other country can essentially say "Our laws are your laws otherwise we're not going manufacture your go…
Empires fall , civilizations thrive.
Re: Chinese embassy lobbies U.S. business to oppose China bills
#95until china starts moving for better rights for their citizens, i am afraid they should be held at arms length. cannot trust a government that lies that over 1 million people are just being "re-educationed" and "happy" and "want to be there", there is a reason for distrust and it's not "xenophobic" to point out the regimes bs, the people of china deserve a better government. don't even get me started on hong kong. th…
I agree. And we should also penalize any state that mass spy on their citizen, go to war against the UN decision while lying about WMD, teaches creationism in some shools and put mostly one ethnicity in privatized slave camps they call prison.
Now if both those states would come to negotionate with each others, that would be interesting.
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#96Am I the only one deeply amused that the title of this article is prefixed by “Exclusive” while its content basically boils down to: “The representatives of the Chinese government in the USA are doing their job: representing the interests of China”?
It is not normal.
Re: Chinese embassy lobbies U.S. business to oppose China bills
#97until china starts moving for better rights for their citizens, i am afraid they should be held at arms length. cannot trust a government that lies that over 1 million people are just being "re-educationed" and "happy" and "want to be there", there is a reason for distrust and it's not "xenophobic" to point out the regimes bs, the people of china deserve a better government. don't even get me started on hong kong. th…
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah yes, the early middle ages that everyone agrees was a wonderful time, full of peace, economic prosperity, and progress /s.
In the west nobody seriously thinks that. But Constantinople was the cosmopolitan city for a very long time.
Im not denying that the eastern part of the Roman Empire continued to flourish, but you can’t ignore that Western Europe stagnated for almost 1000 years.
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#99Cool Sinophobia ITT
The Chinese governments go/to response is to yell “racism!” whenever China is held to account or attacked.
It’s genius really. They know that so many people have a deep instant response to the cry of racism and the CCP uses that to their advantage.
In this way they masterfully play the west like a fiddle.
They get all the people opposed to racism to stand up for China. And none of these anti Racists have a clue - they think they’re “doing the right thing” when in fact the CCP is laughing itself silly at these useful idiots.
So yeah, “sinophobia” buddy, not a belligerent aggressive authoritarian bully state hell bent on subverting the political systems of the world to control everything. No, “sinophobia”.
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#100The U.S. has the best system of governance in the world. The members of Congress are selected by U.S. citizens and funded by international U.S based companies operating globally. This creates a delicate balance where the interests and goals of all major economies are balanced. The U.S citizens maintain full control of who they vote. At the same time the influencing working trough their mind, and trough their represen…
Congress is actually highly undemocratic when you look at it. Its heavily biased towards rural states with small populations: Montana has the same amount of senators as California. Its also a tremendously unpopular institution, the approval ratings have hovered at or below 10% for years.
It's odd that you make an argument that democracy and popularity are important in response to the point I'm trying to make.