Board Thread:Political Discussion/@comment-45820401-20200610191325/@comment-45820401-20200612210408

Bosnia Mapper wrote: Maybe you are a caveman because you can't read. He'd said that the Chinese government does oppress people and kill them. And you may not have a Chinese phone, but hundreds of millions of people around the world do. If everybody suddenly stopped buying anything made in China, many dozens of millions of people worldwide would lose jobs, and people would be forced to buy their products in lesser quality and quantity and from somewhere else. Demand would shoot up, making everything more expensive, and we'd have another Great Depression in our hands. China’s vast pool of cheap labour, its absence of social or environmental restraints means it can undercut the rest of the world. Its unfair practices are killing jobs around the globe. Failure to protect intellectual property rights means competitors are ripped off and consumers dumped with substandard counterfeits. China’s insatiable demand is pushing up world prices for oil and minerals. The world’s biggest polluter is also destroying the planet, its carbon emissions are up 171 percent since 2000.