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Re:Xinjiang cotton: Western clothes brands vanish as backlas... by kif on Saturday March 27, 2021 @08:04AM (#26601714)
I don't see the fact about the Uyghur celebrity you singled out as interesting, for the simple fact that she's in China. As is painfully well known outside of China, they have a way of making businessmen disappear: https://money.cnn.com/2017/06/14/investing/china-missing-exe...

So I really don't see how any of your points make sense, about companies being private and all. The truth is there's no democracy in China.

Anything that comes out of there must be taken with a truckload of salt. Kind of like the ridiculous Covid numbers, that put the total number of cases in China lower than countries with a population 500x smaller than theirs.

Re:Xinjiang cotton: Western clothes brands vanish as backlas... by kif on Saturday March 27, 2021 @12:02PM (#26603243)
Seems like this site has taken a turn for the worse. I expect downvotes without discourse on Reddit, it being a social media and all, but I thought the people here were above it. Oh well...
Re:Xinjiang cotton: Western clothes brands vanish as backlas... by FooBarWidget on Saturday March 27, 2021 @01:31PM (#26603861)
For what its worth: people on both sides get downvoted without discussion. You're not alone.
Re:Xinjiang cotton: Western clothes brands vanish as backlas... by kif on Saturday March 27, 2021 @02:31PM (#26604325)
Yeah, I'm fairly aware. And it is a bit painful to see, because in the end I prefer some good discourse vs "winning" or "losing" an argument.