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Oh, and domestic industrial infrastructure spending is way, way down, because nobody knows when Trump's going to throw the next grenade into the economy, so nobody is committing to investments.
I'll just buy straight from the source using AliExpress. Thank you Americans. You have made my life cheaper.
Ideally, you'd boycott Chinese products too.
I mean, I'm fully aware that "everything is made in China", but - to me - there's a difference in supporting a [somewhere]-based company that pays taxes [somewhere] and purchases components/manufactures in China (sending part of my money there), and buying full-on Chinese, and having 100% of my money support a genocidal government.
Your point is valid, but non-genocidal governments are getting harder to find any more.
China has authoritarianism and repression but not full on mass genocide like America and the EU.
Tell that to the Uyghurs.
Can you show evidence of mass genocide on Uygurs?
Yes that is repression and authoritarianism. Not everything is genocide. Unless you use the CIA created organization Radio Free Asia as source.
What the West is doing in Gaza has every major human rights organization qualifying it as genocide.
This is what a Wikipedia page of genocide looks like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
This is not to say Chinese repression and authoritarianism is great, but it is "better" than literal mass extermination.
Persecution. Not mass extermination. This is what a Wikipedia page about genocide looks like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
Alright so we'll just go ahead and mark you down for "indifferent to Uyghur persecution".
Also, the treatment of Uyghurs meets the definition for genocide. Please read the article.
Those accusing China of genocide point to intentional acts they say violate Article II of the Genocide Convention,[22][23][24] which prohibits "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part," a "racial or religious group" including "causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group" and "measures intended to prevent births within the group".[
Those who? Which respected human rights organization calls it a genocide? [22][23][24]?
My bad. I wasn't aware that real genocides are decided by "respected human rights organizations", otherwise it's just a sparkling extermination program. Are you fucking serious right now?
Stop trying to devalue to meaning of the word genocide. If an opponent of the West was committing genocide these organisations would be the very first to use the term.
Genocide is a crime on Holocaust level specifically focused on exterminating a group.
Not every war crime or authoritarian oppression suddenly becomes genocide.
So, hypothetically, by your understanding of the word genocide... If I relocated a group of people based on ethnic or cultural identity, forced abortions, sterilized the populace, separated families and in some cases just straight up murdered them...that wouldn't constitute a genocide in your mind?
Clearly, you care more about the "value of the definition of genocide" more than you care about people who are actually victims of it by definition.
No genocides recently, just massacring millions of their own civilians for having a different belief.
Do you have any credible sources for this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_China
You can dig into the sources for each event. For my above comment I didnt dig into the sources.
I am sure China has committed genocides in the past but I am also not putting Japan on the genocide list because the rape of Nanking. The only event people keep bringing up regarding China is the Tiannenmen Square riots where less than a thousand people were killed. And even accepting all Western narratives that was certainly not a targeted extermination of a certain population but it would be political repression.
We are talking about active genocides. People need to stop devalueing the word genocide.
I never said genocide I was just pointing out that they've done a bit more than just authoritarianism and repression. Tiannenmen square is a blip on the CCP massacres.
Germany and America are beating protesters harder than China currently and nobody accuses them of genocide for that.
America is directly committing genocide in Gaza with their boots on the ground though. And Germany is heavily complicit.
Ah yes, the American private military contractors on the ground distributing aid and Germans beating some protestors. Totally comparable to China killing 4 million of their own people.
Also theres a news story on the front page of chinese police beating citizens bloody with batons and cattle prods for protesting justice for girl who got bullied.
Is China responsible for supplying russia in their war?
You mean Americans shooting and killing Palestinians right? Do link your four million source.
Ive already given you the source.
I buy from where is cheaper. I'd buy in Taobao if I could but I don't know how it works, so, temu and AliExpress for me.
Besides their packages almost never get stolen by customs in my country, unlike amazon's
The sellers on AliExpress have to pay duty now. Granted, they probably declare far less than true value, but the tariffs already made prices on AliExpress increase. You just don't notice it because it's rolled into the sale price or added to taxes and shipping.
Most things I shop for on AE are around 20% higher than they were before the tariffs started and de minimis was removed. I suspect sellers were shipping from China to other countries and then to US so the tariffs wouldn't be so harsh. Now that we seem to be removing the de minimis exception from other countries, that work around could end - leading to additional price increases.
Almost everything we do requires imports at some level. If it's not direct ingredients, the machines we use need parts, or them themselves come in.
If we wanted to solve it in a sustainable way, take all those fucking tax cuts for the rich, make them pay taxes and start grants for entrepreneurs to start manufacturing companies until we can make metal mesh and plastic shit here again for pennies.
Make sure grants are only issued to things that are in need and that they have buyers lined up.
but. the economy is BOOMING. 💪🇺🇸💪🇺🇸💪 🇺🇸 Talking head said so
It may be put together in America. It sure isn't sourced in America
Trump supporters are in the find out phase. Unfortunately so are the rest of us
not as long as fox/newsmax/oan isnt reporting on it, or in a non-misinformation way
It ain’t.
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