> and not, say, the Chinese?

Are you under the impression that the USA isn't already asking that question about the Chinese?

Examples:

  - Chinese "investors" getting access to Silicon Valley startups for "due diligence" before a theoretical investment
  - Forced IP transfer
  - Chinese-made networking equipment, drones, etc being banned
  - More scrutiny of Chinese university students

These might just be leverage in the current trade war, but I would argue they are multi-pronged flashpoints in a multi-front "war" between the previous superpower and a vying potential superpower.

What about the crimes against humanity commited by the US then? Should we ban US money as well? :D

While the parent poster presented the issue as one of morality, it's more honest to frame it as self-preservation. It's rarely wise to allow another country too much influence over you - even rarer when it's as openly hostile to the US as China.

Any wrongs you may have done don't enter into consideration when trying to prevent being wronged by others.

I don't live in Saudi Arabia, or China, or Russia... I live in the USA. Not that I dismiss what the US has done, I'd say the scope and scale aren't quite the same a lot of the time.

In this case it's about preserving values from undue foreign influence. Preserving values from undue domestic influence is a bit easier inside the USA.

I'm thinking the same thing. China and Saudi Arabia might be awful but our own hands aren't clean either.

I misspoke. I do not know of any crimes against humanity that the Saudis are actively committing.

Yemen is an easy example. [2] "As of October 2018, there have been more than 1.2 million cases reported, and more than 2,500 people—58% children—have died in the Yemen cholera outbreak, which is the worst epidemic in recorded history and was, according to the United Nations (UN), the worst humanitarian crisis in the world."

These numbers are also very conservative estimates, given the state of siege.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian-led_intervention...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%E2%80%9319_Yemen_cholera_...

Wow. Thanks for sharing these links.

China is also another easy sample with Concentration Camps for Uighurs, Tibet ..etc.

[1]https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/analysis/wo... [2]https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/26/uighur-concentration-ca... [3]https://www.businessinsider.com/muslim-woman-describes-horro... [4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps

Then you should get out more. Executing people for apostasy, blasphemy or witchcraft, torture, denying more or less all rights to women, turning a blind eye to extensive human trafficking, attempting genocide of Shia (not claiming they are conducting something like the Holocaust, this word covers a variety of actions). The list goes on and on.

Actually the mandatory death penalty for blasphemy award goes to PK. Gotta out Saudi the Saudis when you’re on the dole