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Not buying chinese products harms chinese producers. It won't make a dent to the billionaire politicians that decide and execute on concentration camps.

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That’s entirely false. Less sales from Chinese producers to the U.S. without question weakens the CCP.

Would we have been so flippant about buying products from the third reich???

Cubans are not faring better because there are sactions that prohibit them from gaining access to basic international services, many of which are free. The pressure has to be applied to the people in charge, to their wealth, to their families abroad, etc. Hitting the guy manufacturing iphones is not an effective or morally reasonable tactic.

The wealth and power of the CCP is directly tied to the success of Chinese business internationally (much like the Cuban Communist regime). Their is no private enterprise in China; the CCP quite literally owns all means of production in China.

I’ll politely refuse your invited to support the CCP (oppressors of the Chinese people) by proxy so as to not upset the people of China - you see how your logic is circular here...?

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