aaaand again China doing whatever it wants and nobody doing anything about it. When will this stop?
Personally i'm boycotting their product and services as much as possible.
https://www.nationalfisherman.com/national-international/oce...
[Insert monkey puppet meme.]
Not defending them, but it looks like it's a wider problem than just "China bad".
Good luck with that.
Turn over pretty much any item in your house, and you’ll see ”Made in China.”
Every single one of our nations has its markets dominated by corporations that have found the only way to compete, is to manufacture in China.
Many nations are now incapable of manufacturing their own goods.
Once you’re a pickle, you’ll never be a cucumber again.
This did not start with China. Japan did it after WWII (remember "cheap Japanese"?). Korea did it after Japan.
Now, both Korea and Japan are becoming known for high-quality, pricey stuff.
Many Korean and Japanese corporations manufacture in China, Thailand, and Vietnam.
China is headed that way too, but it may take longer.
Here's a site from a quick search. https://www.tedss.com/LearnMore/American-Made-Capacitors
Here is a site for US built computers with the option to specify US only components. https://usamadeproducts.biz/electronics-computers.html
Made in USA != all parts made in the USA. Kinda like how "Made in the USA" cars/trucks are often 90% made overseas then sent to the US for final assembly to earn that sticker.
I'll ignore the fact that the very first link in your computer URL is Apple, which does not have a 100% made in the USA product.
The second computer company in your link is Digital Storm. They use MSI boards which are made in Taiwan and China.
Voting with wallet only works when there are options. I bet the devices that you and I used to write these very comments are highly likely made in China too, at least partly
A great deal of our overall consumer products are, but most of our consumables come from the US or Central/South America.
That said, I guess... I'm actually OK with jingoist anti-China hatred in this particular case if it helps drive attention to a genuine ecological catastrophe? The woke hippies welcome you aboard, mate.
Of course, it didn't work out like that.
I assume that people understood their town's local economy would be uplifted by a renewed fishing industry.
Of course, that was never a real possibility.
If the military cannot perform this task then why does Argentina spend $3billion on them?
The obvious answer is that Argentina is a failed state, incapable of defending itself.
Now, I’m not going to get down in to the weeds about fishing property rights, but it looks like you’re trying to climb up this abstraction layer (“territorial sovereignty”) to justify violence against the peaceful.
If indeed they are stealing from someone under the law, I don’t think violent action via a national military is in any way whatsoever a proportionate response. You seem to be advocating for collective guilt because there are so many, and collective guilt or group punishment is a violation of human rights.
Is it any wonder a rising power chafes at rules that it didn't get same amount of influence over at the time of writing because it was weaker? Our entire structure of international law is based on decisions made in those first few years after WW2. It's been 70+ years since then and the world has changed dramatically. I'm quite concerned that if the current international structure isn't flexible enough to bend and accommodate the pressure those changes, its going to break like an earthquake fault and we could very well have a WW3 scenario on our hands.
Xinjiang, Tibet, and events in Hong Hong don’t bode well. Trends in the South China Sea show that China doesn’t respect its neighboring countries claims either. So the external events that do exist are not promising that China will be better.
And in internal politics and equality, we haven’t yet forced academics and professionals into labor camps but it may be trending that way.
Edit: I’m by no means downplaying the terribleness the USA did in South America, the Middle East or elsewhere nor our own internal discriminations and worse, I’m pointing out that given the limited information we have, it does not give any confidence that China will be an improvement. My own feel given my fairly limited understanding is that overall it will be worse for the environment and justice globally and at the very best essentially the same but with a new face.
“I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.”
I remember this quote from an old Ice Cube btw