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For a blanket refusal to transact with any Chinese business? I don't know if there's anything it would "take" as such. What's happening in Xinjiang is already about as bad as a domestic issue can get. I just don't agree that it's a good lever to push.

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Here in Canada is I found out I was losing sales because people were upset with the way Canada was treating the first nations people here it would certainly be an eye opener and probably would make me want my government to stop doing what it was doing to make me lose business.

Even accepting the underlying logic, aren't Chinese citizens also generally victims of their government, not equal partners who could effectively shift its policies? If a random businessperson started raising a fuss about Xinjiang, I expect they would find themselves quickly disappeared or jailed on fabricated charges.

I understand there are 100 million members of the CCP. if society as a whole is quietly unhappy with the result of actions by their government I think they would have the influence to change the course. Maybe some are loud and disappeared but all of the institutions are made up of people. Just like the "adults are in the room" editorial when Trump was president there can be quiet dissenters who just don't work as hard to get the officially desired outcomes and then they don't occur.

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