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Re:White House Weighs Limits on U.S. Portfolio Flows Into China by chvid on Saturday September 28, 2019 @09:56AM (#21100297)
Because it is bullshit. The current US administration is pushing issues now that it has ignored in the past. Eventhough in the broad view these issues are improving dramatically. Look at China today compared with how it was two or three decades ago and it will show massive improvements on living standard, environment, human rights, protection of minorities, intectual property rights, rule of law etc.
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Re:White House Weighs Limits on U.S. Portfolio Flows Into China by perl4ever on Saturday September 28, 2019 @07:59PM (#21103952)
I don't have a feel for what is BS in the usual rhetoric, but I saw something interesting today - among the measures reportedly being contemplated by the administration are the elimination of "waivers" for Chinese companies that are listed on US stock exchanges without meeting US accounting/auditing standards.

Now, there may be nuance or whatever that I'm not aware of, but that actually sounds quite reasonable on the face of it. Why not require Chinese companies to meet US standards to be listed here? Maybe waivers were a type of corruption, even if well intended?

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Re:White House Weighs Limits on U.S. Portfolio Flows Into China by asabjorn on Saturday September 28, 2019 @01:10PM (#21101514)
Environmental? China emit more CO2 than the EU and US combined https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/20...

Human rights? They have started putting Uighurs, Buddhists and Falun Gong into re-education camps https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong

Two previous points also counter the rule of law point, which is admittedly a western concept.

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Re:White House Weighs Limits on U.S. Portfolio Flows Into China by chvid on Saturday September 28, 2019 @03:35PM (#21102394)
China is 1.4 B people; why wouldn't it have higher co2 emissions than EU and USA?

Anyways. We can chat about particular data points. But if you look at the broad picture over decades; you really have to be willfully blind to deny massive improvements that have happened.

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Re:White House Weighs Limits on U.S. Portfolio Flows Into China by asabjorn on Saturday September 28, 2019 @04:56PM (#21102796)
The claim though was that it had improved on these and other points. And at least on these there seem to be a big and widely published degradation.

Can always talk about data on the other points as well to see what they say.

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