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Re:China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods by friedman23 on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @12:17PM (#17717156)
> China is a sovereign nation

Is this how you justify concentration camps?

Re:China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods by pm90 on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @02:46PM (#17718344)
No. I'm merely pointing out that the Chinese Government has certain leeway in which to run their country. Concentration camps must and should be condemned and there are ways to achieve that: targeted sanctions on entities associated with those activities. That's why we have sanctions against Russian oligarchs involved in criminal activities and not against the entire Russian Federation.

What I'm arguing against is penalizing the whole country with a trade embargo. That is just bullshit coming from someone who understands very little about how international relations work.

Re:China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods by gurkendoktor on Thursday August 09, 2018 @07:29AM (#17723219)
How should we impose a sanction on the regional government of Xinjiang specifically? Do you really think the gov't in Beijing has nothing to do with these camps, and should be exempt?

I'm glad that weapon sales to all of China are banned, not just to imperialistic individuals within the PLA.

Re:China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods by pm90 on Thursday August 09, 2018 @04:29PM (#17728179)
There is only so much that you can do with wealth in China; many corrupt individuals often park their illicit wealth abroad in Western nations and that is where sanctions against these individuals (or companies) really hurts them.

Sanction enough individuals and you force them to fall in line and discourage that kind of corruption.

Re:China announces 25% tariffs on $16B worth US goods by d0lph on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @03:36PM (#17718755)
I don't think we should buy goods produced by actual slave labor, I'm sure there are a lot of financial incentives with slave labor though.