If China Is So Bad, Why So Much Trade With The US? (Iraq, wages)

[dorado0359]

Isn't boycot or a cease/reduction in trade activity a more effective method for the US to get its message regarding human rights, democracy, etc, across to China? It seems to be a awful lot of talk and criticism, but no action from our government concerning China.

[intelfan11315]

If we interfere with China that's a lot of lives we're going to lose? It'll be sure to put the war in Iraq to shame.

[macmeal]

We don't want to "annoy" China...it will be a MAJOR POWER in the next few decades and we don't want to miss out on the 'goodies' of trading and doing business.

Does this sound hypocritical? Maybe. But it's a fact. We dropped Taiwan (which for years we insisted WAS the legitimate government of China)..not because Communist (mainland) China suddenly became 'nicer'...or because we 'liked' its gruesome human rights abuses....but because it became obvious to us that 'that's where the money is (and will be). That made those human rights abuses a whole lot easier to 'rationalize' away....

[MamaBee]

Well, they also own a large portion of our debt...so...there's that aspect too.

[skoro]

I've been puzzled by the government's stance that China is OK, while Cuba is a menace.

[Veltz]

Well, Israel commits gross human rights violations; perhaps more so than many other first world nations. And we give them billions a year for it.

[66nexus]

Originally Posted by Veltz

Well, Israel commits gross human rights violations; perhaps more so than many other first world nations. And we give them billions a year for it.

So does just about every other Middle Eastern country...

[Veltz]

Originally Posted by 66nexus

So does just about every other Middle Eastern country...

We don't call them staunch allies and give them billions of the latest U.S made technology to steal and annex more Palestinian land and bomb children with rocks.

Nor do they have a stranglehold on U.S foreign policy like American Jews and the way they push it towards benefiting Israel all while slandering those who oppose as anti-Semites.

Then again, we prop up Albanians to steal Kosovo from Serbs so that the Albanians can have another European country to funnel drugs, women and weapons through... like they don't already do enough of that in Western Europe.

[sanspeur]

I thought this was about China....I think it is about the money. There are a lot of US businesses and business interests in China. More corporate rule I'm afraid.

[HighPlainsDrifter73]

It's all about money, what else. Do you think that Walmart and other large corporations who benefit greatly from China care about human rights abuses. They love the economic model in China and would like to have it here. Low wages, little rights and freedoms and the inability of the populace to defend itself against a totalitarian government.