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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Yea let’s not do what we always do by switching from one bad thing to the thing we know is worse because “change” while better solutions exist. China also threatens sovereignty, supplies Russia, and even works with North Korea. They have even worse labour issues than the US does, though oddly they seem to do alright with trans rights. The concentration camps for Uyghurs does offset that last bit, though.

I wish we had more brains than “frying pan hot, must jump into fire”.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

switching from one bad thing to the thing we know is worse

How is an EV worse because of its nation of origin?

China also threatens sovereignty, supplies Russia, and even works with North Korea.

China is in no way impugning on Canadian sovereignty. They're doing business with Russia just like every single other Asiatic Nation, from South Korea to India to Turkyie - none of which are undergoing comparable sanctions.

Which is particularly galling, given that South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol used "Secret North Korean election interference" as his excuse to launch a coup on Parliament just a couple of months ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

China also has detained Canadian citizens several times in the past and it has been major issues trying to get them back here. That alone probably isn’t enough to warrant such extreme sanctions, but their disregard for many human rights is a problem we all face unless we’re shitty, selfish, nationalist assholes at which point that opinion ceases to hold much weight.

South Korea showed us that when someone in power tries to do a crazy thing the country as a wholw will actually do something to stop them. Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached and that whole thing is still ongoing, with the court to rule on that on Friday so I’m not sure why you think that’s a gotcha.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I would think that freeing up trade policies would certainly help relationships between countries.

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