in 2000 America imported 6.38% of its total imports from China, in 2020 America imported 19.5% of its total imports from China, over a threefold increase. Setting aside the question, if the US government (or their allies) actually cared about the treatment of Muslims in China (they don’t, they’ve been bombing Muslim countries nonstop for 20 years), they would have to decouple the American economy from the Chinese economy as quickly as possible with a general boycott of Chinese goods in order to end indirect material support for the genocide they claim is happening. But we all know that’s not gonna happen, lol.
I think that’s where a lot of this “China Man Bad” rhetoric stems from. If they’re extra loud about how bad China is, find one or two token Chinese companies to boycott, it’ll assuage the nagging feeling of cognitive dissonance that getting all that plastic shit from China completely undermines the idea that capitalism buttresses “free” society.
Said it before, will say it again.
in 2000 America imported 6.38% of its total imports from China, in 2020 America imported 19.5% of its total imports from China, over a threefold increase. Setting aside the
question, if the US government (or their allies) actually cared about the treatment of Muslims in China (they don’t, they’ve been bombing Muslim countries nonstop for 20 years), they would have to decouple the American economy from the Chinese economy as quickly as possible with a general boycott of Chinese goods in order to end indirect material support for the genocide they claim is happening. But we all know that’s not gonna happen, lol.
I think that’s where a lot of this “China Man Bad” rhetoric stems from. If they’re extra loud about how bad China is, find one or two token Chinese companies to boycott, it’ll assuage the nagging feeling of cognitive dissonance that getting all that plastic shit from China completely undermines the idea that capitalism buttresses “free” society.