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| With or Without North Korea, There Is No Moral Justification for Trade with China |
| 2017-09-05 |
| [Breitbart] President Donald Trump has alarmed the Chinese government again with a threat to cut economic ties to nations that do business with North Korea. China is North Korea’s largest trading partner and a major player in the U.S. market. Trump will face heavy criticism suggesting that no trade warnings will get China to abandon its fellow communist state and North Korea may never react rationally to international pressure. These concerns, like North Korea itself, are not relevant to the real reason America cannot morally justify trade with China: its decades of history committing flagrant human rights abuses, the kind that have gotten countries like Cuba blacklisted from the American market for decades. Following North Korea’s announcement of yet another nuclear bomb test on Sunday ‐ its sixth such test and, Pyongyang claims, its first successful hydrogen bomb attack ‐ President Trump took to Twitter, scolding South Korea’s leftist government for believing dialogue with the regime was an option and threatening military action against North Korea. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 Nixon thought it was a new deal. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-09-05 22:59 |
| #5 We should have been talking Free Trade deal with India a long time ago as a way to counter Chinese power. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2017-09-05 18:33 |
| #4 they're lying cheating scum, communist scum (the worst kind). And the Americans have naievly walked into dependency with them. "most favored nation" my ass. cut them off completely, no more higher education in the USA, no more anything in or to do with the USA would be best. Wake up America!!! |
| Posted by: 746 2017-09-05 13:44 |
| #3 Morality is rationalized - see Lawrence vs Texas. The 'opening of China' was done by the (not) 'Best and Brightest' to integrate China into the world economic system making it a partner (ignoring 2000 years+ of imperialism and chauvinism). Backed, cf course, by the Chamber of Commerce K street brigade who saw $$$ and didn't give a frig about the consequences, thus fulfilling Lenin's screed that a capitalist is a person who'll sell you the rope you'll hang them with. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-09-05 07:57 |
| #2 Bret Baier's Special Report on cutting trade with China: "You want to walk into Walmart and find nothing on the shelves?" ~ Mara Liasson |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-09-05 03:32 |
| #1 With or Without North Korea, There Is No Moral Justification for Trade with China Thank you! Someone finally said it. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-09-05 03:14 |