cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/24652413
Video and source: https://xcancel.com/dieworkwear/status/1951851958559703117#m
cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/24652413
Video and source: https://xcancel.com/dieworkwear/status/1951851958559703117#m
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?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Uyghurs_in_China
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 who? Which respected human rights organization calls it a genocide? [22][23][24]?
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.
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.