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Comment by darthrupert | Hacker News Reader

To put it bluntly: Because we're better than them.

Yet we are allowing human right abuses? I think we only care about money, that's why we allow this to happen.

Just look at Intel right now, apologizing for not using slave labour...

IMHO Intel was just dumb for annoncing to blanket ban anything from Xinjiang. They can still audit their suppliers and discontinue collaboration with those that look suspicions.

Im out of the loop about this. What are you talking about?

Not by a large margin, but yes, yes you are, to some extent still.

I just wished you and Europe where as good as your PR, I really and genuinely do

Impossible. You are thinking about it as an exercise in rationality and morals. This is a fight of chimp tribes, all the bla bla about human rights,justice, liberty is a very thin coat about the hate for the other band of apes. We are talking about 7 million years of evolution in action.

No, that's not it at all.

Trade is a serious issue, it has consequences.

If China banned most US companies, the US would have to ban most Chinese companies.

Does it make it better to make our workers compete with people without rights, healthcare, holidays, sustainable pay? I don't have any problem with China they can ban what they want, I would just desire that this open borders crap would require import only from countries where workers have a compatible standard of living of importing countries

>Does it make it better to make our workers compete with people without rights, healthcare, holidays, sustainable pay?

Why are you dragging USA into this again?

Lol alright.. well played

I probably should have added the implied "in this particular way at least".

Also, the problems you describe don't affect all of the western world. And I would like to add, based on talking to a few chinese friends, those things are a problem in China as well. Competition in particular is quite brutal from kindergarten onwards there.

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