Posted on 09/22/2014 7:18:19 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Dozens of Chinese firms are producing and exporting “tools of torture”, from electric stun guns to metal spiked batons, to countries with bad human rights records, rights group Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
More than 130 companies are involved in producing or trading the equipment, typically marketed to law enforcement agencies, up from about 28 companies a decade ago, Amnesty said. […]
One company, China Xining Import/Export Corporation, which advertises thumb cuffs, restraint chairs and electric stun guns, said in 2012 it had ties to more than 40 African countries, according to Amnesty. The firm could not be reached for comment. …
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That’s just nasty.
Dear Amnesty,
China does not care.
Best wishes,
boycott
If Nixon could see what he wrought.
Opening China to the world was a terrible mistake.
The opera “Nixon in China” was an even worse mistake. :-(
At least they are not on Amazon.
China will make anything you can get a factory together for.
Call the Whaambulance! Another Leftard has forgotten how Africans like to do such warmly and traditionally African things as hacking the arms off their captives with a machete and then roasting the arm in front of the still living victim.
Africa is a basket case. Africans are the reason.
The Chicoms have plenty of opportunity to try out and fine-tune their products of torture on their population before international sale commences.
Nobody forced Americans to carry on business in China. Those who pretend that it is government’s role to stop the private sphere from doing legitimate things, are being silly.
Not worse than getting in bed with the muzzies for their oil.
Yea but it will all be cheap crap that will break the first time it is used.
No; blaming the people as a people is false and a liberal trap.
African countries, i.e. those not already “Islamic socialist” basket cases, increasingly turned to communism post-colonialism. Red China is of course a “natural” partner in their “revolutions”.
What’s legitimate about doing business with tyrants? That kinda led to two world wars, in the past.
And it’s the government that induced all this business with Red China in the first place.
Unlikely. The commies are certainly serious about their torture devices.
Who’s to designate what is a tyrant and what is not?
Looking at the USA, it’s sort of hard to tell.
We could consider ourselves fortunate that China is so obsessed with domestic riches, earned by traiding. When it goes to grab the riches of others by force (a la Putin) ... THEN we have a legitimate problem.
The Chi coms are serious about maximum profits. Their torture devices won’t be any better than any of the other cheap crap they ship.
I hear you and understand, but sometimes evil must be isolated in order to be contained.
During the reign of Mao, MILLIONS of people were killed, and they were our sworn enemy.
I will never understand how Nixon, a passionate anti-communist, could pursue a relationship with Mao. it did not make sense to me at the time, and it still doesn’t.
And the results speak for themselves.
Sincerely...I am all for free-enterprise, but allowing China to destroy our economy (with our cheerful compliance!) is not what the founders had in mind.
Libertarian anarcho-capitalists can learn a thing or two from the chinese.
Maybe we should ask the victims of the police in those African countries.
Rest assured that communists are not about maximum profit. Their actions in Africa and South America are part of “internationalist” communist colonialism.
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