Re:‘We’re Almost Extinct’: China’s Investigative Journalists...
by coldtea on Saturday July 13, 2019 @07:23AM
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>The argument that dealing with China will somehow make them change their values makes as much sense as saying we should deal directly with drug cartels and they'll change their values. It may be true, it may not be true, but either way it's basically the same argument. Somehow that by bringing them into the system will make them more like us
Well, the US has been dealing directly with drug cartels and it did turn them to have closer ties (e.g. funding them against communists in latin america etc).
And of course drug cartels that get rich enough tend to diversify and branch into legal businesses in a generation or two (they'd rather invest their riches than keep living under constant threat).
Finally, if drugs are made legal, drug cartels are forced to change into mere drug businesses (or branch into other types of much less lucrative and impactful crime, like smuggling).
Well, the US has been dealing directly with drug cartels and it did turn them to have closer ties (e.g. funding them against communists in latin america etc).
And of course drug cartels that get rich enough tend to diversify and branch into legal businesses in a generation or two (they'd rather invest their riches than keep living under constant threat).
Finally, if drugs are made legal, drug cartels are forced to change into mere drug businesses (or branch into other types of much less lucrative and impactful crime, like smuggling).