>>12383236>Protests what?>Just fucking murder them bro, run them over with the tank, spray them with the coax, it's not like people who disobey our glorious leader are actually people!vs
>You are doing horrific inhuman shit to your people, so we do not want to do international business with your shitty government any longer, which would contribute to encouraging the way you treat your citizens because you associate it with success.Sanctions are nothing more than extracting oneself politically from moral culpability in the way shithole countries treat their people. They will treat them shitty with or without our business, so we might as well just not give them our business. Also this
>>12383251, China, like the USSR before is an avowed enemy of the US, and overtly desire global hegemony as well, there is no reason why we should help them slit our throats just from a purely pragmatic amoral standpoint. If there are two assholes fighting for a knife, if they are both pragmatic, why would one help the other stab him?
That's what doing business with China is, giving them aid in destroying us.
Yes, both our governments are sociopathic collections of self-enriching shitheads who grind up their citizens for personal gain. No, doing international business with China as opposed to sanctioning them or any other shithole is not going to change them.