“BFF, XI”....(said then-VP BIDEN, as long as the checks to the Biden family clear)
Posted on 12/11/2021 2:36:21 AM PST by Kaslin
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.
Country of Origin
Products can be marked with their country of origin, which should make sanctions easy.
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Yes, these are empty sanctions that will do nothing.
That is why Trump/Navarro used tariffs on broad swaths of goods. Yes, the Chinese avoided some of these tariffs by labeling the goods as coming from another nation, but those tariffs still brought China to the negotiating table and were having a positive impact on the US economy.
China knows that without a strong leader, like Trump, they can continue to utilize slave labor, massacre civilians in Hong Kong and invade Taiwan without any significant consequences from the west.
China is our drug dealer and we are the addicts.
Tariffs are patriot candy.
China can laugh all it wants.
I am personally boycotting Chinese goods as much as humanly possible. I check labels when I shop and have started looking up online for goods not made in China.
Passed up some wood stove gloves made in Pakistan, as well. Not interested in supporting them either.
Boycott the “ bogeyman “ when the USSA govt. is just as corrupt , even more so , perhaps . Good luck with that .
“BFF, XI”....(said then-VP BIDEN, as long as the checks to the Biden family clear)
Mom; we'll get you some help!
I know. But I can do what I can and I do know others who are doing the same.
Yup.
Just like the laughable “diplomatic boycott” of the Olympics in China. Dementia Joe regime is great for meaningless, empty gestures.
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