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I totally support local manufacturing. We are too dependent on China to make stuff.

I love when China innovates (DJI) or drive prices down with creativity (Xiaomi). But much of China's competitiveness comes from poor treatment of people.

China's secluded internet and constant surveilancy makes harder for people to speak up and express themselves differently that how "society" dictates.

Also check out http://www.reddit.com/r/avoidchineseproducts

Wonder if this will be used in electronics supply chains

This is a wonderful idea! To purchase products made in China is, let's be real, indirectly supporting genocide and human rights abuses. Not buying from China, or anything made in China, is going to be extremely difficult but it's a small step.

On the other hand, $OTHER_COUNTRY has a history of $BAD_THING, so the only conscientious thing to do is boycott everything their workers produce too.

Exactly. Many Americans, for example, seem perfectly content to overlook or ignore the war crime atrocities committed by the United States during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars after 9/11. Reminds me when Jesus asked who do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye?

As a Cold War kid I've come to despise this whole WE are the good guys, THEY are the bad guys narrative. It ignores the fact everybody has good traits and everybody has bad traits - that is it ignores the fact we're all human. None of us have the market cornered on doing good. Or doing bad.

In case of China there are concrete and contemporary things that people don't like. Like concentration camps. I dunno if boycot is an effective tool, but it's something. I think it's more important to stop the crime that is happening at the moment.

And we locked children in cages and separated them from their parents. You can find something to be outraged about in any country you care to look at.

Yes and all these issues should be dealt with.

Boycotting in this case is a tool to make China stop doing bad things. Germany used to have concentration camps, they don't now.

Boycotting is not what stopped Germany though.

You must have studied the Second World Boycott in school?!

Yes, but military confrontation is bad idea in nuclear age.

Since you can search for products made in specific countries, wouldn't this have less of a racist appeal if it was called "Made Here" instead of "Not Made There"?

For example, I live in Canada and like to buy things made here. This site would be useful for that, regardless of my feelings about Chinese (or any other country's) products, government, etc.

Race is not a factor here. You can blame a gay person for bad actions without being a homophobe.

https://madeinca.ca/

"Born at the height of the US/Canada trade spat, Made in Canada is compiling a list of Canadian products in one place, so you can support Canadian businesses and Canadian workers. We’re also a fine resource if you’re looking for alternatives to Chinese-made products, given the country’s recent anti-Canadian actions."

> This organization is ... not against Chinese people in China or abroad.

It's funny that many anti-China people/organization likes to claim they are only against Chinese government, not the Chinese people.

Everything they advocate is directly hurting Chinese people. Will stop buying Chinese product benefit Chinese people? Will stop buying Xinjiang cotton benefit Xinjiang people? Will subvert CCP and inject an US controlled government benefit Chinese people?

No! No! No! These actions can only benefit those hypocrites who imagine they are Messiah. They don't care Chinese people dead or alive yet they say they are not against them.

It will put pressure on the CCP to act like humans. The same happened with France and their anti-Islamic rhetoric after the Muslim population boycotted French products. The CCP is already committing atrocities against its Muslim population, and a stop needs to be put to it.

I take OP's point but...the Chinese people guard the concentration camps, the Chinese people hack and attack other nation's infrastructure, and the Chinese people are ultimately the ones who put the bullet in the gun to kill you. Say what you will about the Chinese government, but it is still the Chinese people that keep it in power. The people are not blameless.

> The people are not blameless.

That's not a reason to be against people.

Say what you will about the Chinese government, but it is still the Chinese people that keep it in power.

This could be debatable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#Asia_and_Austr...

If you lives in China you will know Muslim and all other minority is privileged in China. Yet the media likes to render them as slaves.

Then they can show they are the only humanist.

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