@mchill saidI do not understand the motive for deflecting from the human rights abuses of China.
I'll give you a point or 2 for this, but I would add the same can be said for Russia, Iraq, Iran, and North Korea.
Feeling a little guilty about all of your made in China purchases?
The supreme hypocrisy of the USA is that they sanction Iran for human rights abuses while making China their #1 trade partner for doing worse on a larger scale.
@Philokalia
Well it may be hypocritical but I don't thing we would get anywhere swapping trading partners from China to Iran.
Like it or no, we have to deal with China as it is now and all the bitching about human rights issues will never be solved by ANY country on the planet.
China has a free hand to do whatever it wants and human rights is not a big issue with the Chinese. D64 has said the Chinese are not as single minded as US citizens think but it still looks like they want to at least be rid of Muslims, that seems clear.
And not a THING will or can be done about it.
But look at the difference in the US, China is diverse but the US has just a few different kind of folks and the wholesale importation of slaves for hundreds of years has left the US with some 17% of the population as black as well as indigenes and Asians.
A MUCH higher percentage than in China and we dealt with blacks by lynching them for CENTURIES.
So the US doesn't have any moral grounds to bring up human rights issues in China since by absolute numbers the number of Muslims in China are a very small percentage of the population while we deal systemic racism to tens of MILLIONS of blacks and browns in the US.
@sonhouse saidThe real swap that "we" could have made would be to have swapped Saudi Arabia for Iran.
@Philokalia
Well it may be hypocritical but I don't thing we would get anywhere swapping trading partners from China to Iran.
Since almost all the jihadist atrocities that have taken place in Western countries have been committed by Sunni Muslims radicalised under the influence of Salafite doctrine exported from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies, it would have been, on balance, a prudent swap. It should probably have happened on September 12th, 2001.
@teinosuke saidThat would've been a better swap morally but not financially. Which is the U.S. cares about
The real swap that "we" could have made would be to have swapped Saudi Arabia for Iran.
Since almost all the jihadist atrocities that have taken place in Western countries have been committed by Sunni Muslims radicalised under the influence of Salafite doctrine exported from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies, it would have been, on balance, a prudent swap. It should probably have happened on September 12th, 2001.
