Re:‘We’re Almost Extinct’: China’s Investigative Journalists...
by luckylion on Saturday July 13, 2019 @02:57AM
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> I'm honestly not sure how effective it is.
Personally, I think that's the right question to ask, and I'm not sure either. Did the Change Through Rapprochement policies help changing the Soviet Union, or would that change and the eventual dissolving have happened anyway?
What's ethical depends on what you value more highly, I guess: principles or outcomes. Start a world war on principle or do shady realpolitik but keep the peace? The same is true here. And sure, money is a factor, but conflict is good for business, too, so I'm not so sure that it's only pulling in one direction.
Personally, I think that's the right question to ask, and I'm not sure either. Did the Change Through Rapprochement policies help changing the Soviet Union, or would that change and the eventual dissolving have happened anyway?
What's ethical depends on what you value more highly, I guess: principles or outcomes. Start a world war on principle or do shady realpolitik but keep the peace? The same is true here. And sure, money is a factor, but conflict is good for business, too, so I'm not so sure that it's only pulling in one direction.