Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company
by dkdk8283 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @08:59AM
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I support reducing trade with china. The need for cheap goods comes with a long tail price tag. It needs
to be discussed more. Many Chinese workers are in severe poverty and strengthening Chinese businesses seems to only fuel inequality.
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Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company
by valuearb on Saturday August 08, 2020 @09:17AM
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Free trade with China has vastly improved Chinese workers living standards. Those rural jobs from the Cultural Revolution were actual poverty, and physically dangerous to boot.
Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company
by skolsuper on Saturday August 08, 2020 @10:28PM
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There are democracies we could have enriched instead, rather than supporting an authoritarian regime
Re:How Chinese Officials Hijacked My Company
by Wolfenstein98k on Saturday August 08, 2020 @09:27AM
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I agree with you that we need to be much more careful and rigorous before trading with China, but China's market-based growth since Xiaoping's reforms are the reason hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens are out of poverty now.
It is the new turn to geopolitical hegemony and debt entrapment that we should be careful of, not the incredible influx of wealth that has (wonderfully!) gone to the Chinese lower classes.
Free trade, and the US leading the world charge to open up to China, is the best thing that happened to Chinese citizens.
Things are different now that the state has such an iron grip, and its own intentions, however.