https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_boycott_of_Japanese_produ...
They got some results. A Uniqlo store closed down. Airlines reduced flights to Japan. Butt Detective the Movie did not sell very well.
And about prisoners weren't there just post in HN how organs got harvested as well from prisoners? Some that end up dead by "suicide" if they might have something against people in power. Or how some whistle-blowers about to criticize important part of their terrorism-complex end up dead... One makes wonder just how good and moral the citizenry are if people behind that sort of stuff keep getting elected...
In the meantime while we’re working on that, do you know of any countries where I couldn’t do that? Perhaps places where the state sponsored social media would censor these words I’m typing before they made it to you. I want to keep a list and avoid buying microwaves from those places
I can understand objecting to penal labor, but you are over in "words don't mean things" territory.
I also wonder - if you’re so opposed to slavery, what do you think about https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studie... ? You did call them the good guys.
EDIT: it’s not even zero in Finland! https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/map/#mode=map:...
Gives 3.3 people per thousand in slavery. If the people there were good human beings should it not be zero? They have had much longer time to fix this, but have done absolutely nothing clearly. So they must be the bad guys, don't you agree? At least we can agree that they are comparatively worse guys. As they have had much longer to fight against slavery but have not done it.
America is not perfect (maybe not even good) but your attempt to portray them as “worse” than China is nonsensical, the Chinese NK and Russian governments are as bad as it gets in 2024
As for the other stuff you mention, it is well-known that there are sketchy things done by people in power in virtually every country. So in some sense, there are no good guys. But to say China is on par with the US on human rights is ridiculous on the face of it. People are silenced constantly in China over mundane stuff that makes the government look bad. If you won't submit to thug tactics, they will put you in prison.
There are like a million people working to censor the Chinese internet. Just yesterday I heard about a bus crash in China involving the death of a little girl, and the government was threatening the parents and witnesses, and stealing flowers from the site of the accident. If you want to live under that kind of oppression, go move to China. I think you're probably a Chinese propaganda agent but I say it anyway.
This is a drastic oversimplication, and blame game. There are plenty of internal problems with Brazil preventing industry. Taking just one -- Corruption is a significant damper on economic opportunity.
The book "Why Nations Fail" has some amazing insights into why corruption amongst other things has a massive impact on dampening opporunities. The TLDR is that you need confidence of a level playing field, that your hard work won't be taken away from you.
Brazil rates very badly on the global corruption perception index[0], 36/100 compared to say Australia at 75/100 and Germany at 78/100.
It is the OECD[1] view that corruption is one of the significant limiting factors on Economic growth and opportunity within Brazil.
This[2] gov.uk page has some fantastic reading about the problems with doing business with Brazil. You need look no further than this for the things that will need to be solved if you want Brazil to be competitive on the world stage.
This is just one factor amongst many.
- [0]: https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/brazil
- [1]: https://www.oecd.org/policy-briefs/brazil-strengthening-integrity-for-sustainable-growth.pdf
- [2]: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/overseas-business-risk-brazil/overseas-business-risk-brazil1- You are right and reality is simply reproduced in distinct social stratums around the world
2- Something doesn`t adds up.
Brexit is almost certainly linked to Russian influence. The difference is Australia, UK and Australia have strong institutions and firm anti-corruption mechanisms.
Brazil can't succeed until it deals with it's internal problems. Media that blames everyone but internal problems is just serving interests that would prefer the people to look elsewhere.
Having said all that, even I can see the problem with the amount of power that China has accrued manufacturing everything. It's not so much that it's "China" so much as any giant country that doesn't hold the same democratic views (for some value of democratic).
I don't really have an answer. Both Russia and China are demonstrating that the foreign policies of the last 30-40 years are flawed (and full of hypocrisy at times).
Do the leaflets worked at the early start of the "war" when palestinians tried to flee to the south of gaza and were bombed there, or when they try to flee to egypt and are bombed in the border?
What about the widespread destruction where everything is turned into rubble? Was it due to having hamas below all buildings?
I tried to be as concise as i could: All countries seem to me as ignoring how irresponsible the three main perpetrators of widespread violence in the current major conflicts are responsible for. China perpetrates it indirectly in some way.