We should never forget this, in a world where we would rather have cheap products than stand up for Chinese Uyghurs what worth is any of our local ‘liberalism’ when we ignore foreign tyranny out of convenience. This is what our cheap Chinese goods represent, one man and a tank.
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Fuck the CCP
Fuck the CCP
We never forget but still don’t care, given none of european countries recognizses HongKong, Taiwan or even Tibet.
k dude
We shouldn’t forget it but shouldn’t let it dictate current policies either. If we brought up Vietnam for our current policies with the US that would not be helpful or warranted either.
That said, Uyghurs, the internal surveillance model and international ambitions should.
The question is, what can we do about it. Cutting economic ties abruptly would hurt us a lot and we are not really working on isolating the PRC either, the opposite is the case.
One obvious step is, to build up lacking industries in the EU (something all the free-marketeers are not fond of) but it also means we have to choose our battles wisely. At present we are positioning us in a constellation EU + NATO against the rest of the world (minus Australia, Israel, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea).
Where’s your phone manufactured btw?
Considering that the very same politicians and journalists that harp about this (whilst doing nothing) close their eyes to Western financiers and arms dealers propping up in power all manner of corrupt 3rd world dictators in exchange for a slice of the money they plunder (while at the same time their people live in abject poverty or even die of starvation), I’m surprised anybody still thinks that pure, honest and fair morality in any way form or shape guides the judgment and actions around these things in both most of the Western media and (worse) Politics.
The only reason why there is talk about China (but very little action) at the moment is because it is seen by the US elites as a geostrategical adversary and a useful distraction from all the pillaging, decay and corruption going on in the US at the moment, not because of genuine concern for the actual common people (including Uyghurs and the Taiwanese) in other countries.
It all reeks of hypocrisy.