Re:BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs)
by alkonaut on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @08:46AM
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Economic sanctions should aim at the top of Chinese society. Magnitsky type sanctions on officials. Things like preventing every political official or wealthy businessman and their family from travel, going to western universities and all these things they are now used to (and which they wouldn’t be happy to lose).
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Re:BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs)
by boomboomsubban on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:10AM
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>Economic sanctions should aim at the top of Chinese society. Magnitsky type sanctions on officials.
Though an improvement over blanket sanctions, I suspect the rich would use it as an excuse to squeeze more out of the poor.
Additionally, I doubt the widespread abandonment of due process will truly make the people more friendly towards the West. You'd be targeting potentially millions, and any borderline case is a PR disaster. Imagine something like "mailman for forty years loses savings due to US attack."