China issues demolition order on world’s largest religious town in Tibet

Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by jacquesm on Saturday June 18, 2016 @07:10AM (#11927975)

> Cut off trade with China?

That would definitely be an interesting experiment. I suspect prices would rise slightly and we'd find out just how dependent we really are.

After a week or two there would be a joint statement of the leaders of the Western World that they have unanimously decided to support the Chinese action, in fact they'll come to help to cart rubble personally.

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Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by xiaoma on Saturday June 18, 2016 @07:18AM (#11927999)

I'm not sure I follow your reasoning... are you implying that trade with China is more important for the entire western world than international trade with the all the west is to China?

I could certainly see leaders in certain countries such as France who have been actively selling weaponry to China going "to help cart the rubble personally" but there's no way Obama or his next successor would do that.

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Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by jacquesm on Saturday June 18, 2016 @07:22AM (#11928010)

> are you implying that trade with China is more important for the entire western world than international trade with the all the west is to China?

Yes, we are utterly co-dependent at this point in time.

Cutting trade with China would take a decade or more if it can be done at all at this stage.

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Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by giardini on Saturday June 18, 2016 @09:33AM (#11928521)

"Cutting trade with China would take a decade or more if it can be done at all at this stage."

But I could finally buy decent pliers made in the USA, like I once could 25 years ago.

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Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by jacquesm on Saturday June 18, 2016 @10:07AM (#11928661)

You can still buy those. But probably not at a price that you are prepared to pay.

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Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by lostlogin on Saturday June 18, 2016 @03:25PM (#11930169)

Sacrificial tools are great when you want to do a nasty chore, but wow is it irritating having tools disintegrate during use.

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Re:China issues demolition order on world’s largest religiou... by xiaoma on Saturday June 18, 2016 @11:18AM (#11928972)

> Cutting trade with China would take a decade or more if it can be done at all at this stage.

This belief is clearly a failure of imagination.

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