3 Reasons for China to Laugh at New US Sanctions

American Thinker ^ | December 11, AD 2021 | John F Di Leo

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The U.S. House has taken a stand for human rights by passing a bill directing the White House to implement more severe sanctions against the government of Mainland China, which has for seventy years called itself the "People's Republic of China," a gallows-humor name for a government that exists almost entirely to impose suffering upon its own people.

In passing this latest bill, the U.S. House joins the U.S. Senate (which passed a similar bill earlier this year), and also joins the governments of Great Britain, Japan, Australia, the E.U., and many other nations in recent years who have called out Red China for its human rights abuses against various (primarily Muslim) minorities such as Uighurs, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyzes, primarily in Xinjiang.

Perhaps we should compliment Congress on trying to get something right, something that's essentially nonpartisan at its heart. Everyone ought to be able to unite in opposition to forced labor camps. This latest bill would ban all imports from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, in an effort to apply pressure to the Beijing Politburo, and hopefully, eventually, cause an end to China's persecution of these minorities.

Sanctions can be an effective foreign policy tool. The U.S. Export Controls, for example, are designed primarily to deny our enemies the munitions and dual-use materials and technology they could use against us or against our allies. Sanctions can be focused on specific entities or against entire countries, with varying levels of difficulty and success.

There are, however, three key problems with the idea of using limited sanctions (focused on a region and on certain known participants in industry) to address the issue of Chinese human rights abuses...

[rellic]

Chinese aren’t stupid.
They know most of the USA would be perfectly happy if all Moslems were “gone”.
Much of the World agrees with them.
Congress is picking the wrong fight.

[frank ballenger]

Can we get Kamala to give a dramatic reading of the reasons?
The laugh aspect would appeal to her.

[Conservat1]

Speaking of that sector...noticed how the two hypocrites Omar/Tlaib’s sudden silence...won’t get into “activisim” when it’s not linked to bashing the US; any anti West theme or anti-Jewish-Islamic-bigotry?