> Sanctions won’t work. They will just punish businesses that were stupid enough to work with Americans and Europeans.
> This is a giant fuck-you to the West, and it’ll work, because the West has zero leverage.
They won't work to fix Myanmar, but at some point the West has to ask itself if trade with China is worth it, for the future of both the West and all other countries that are not already in the grasp of China.
My opinion is that anyone who have political representation in the west (i.e. congressional representative, member of parliment, etc) should be calling and writing to them and demanding that they sanction China to the fullest extent.
I think there are plenty of reasons to sanction China, and maybe your political representatives won't actually push for sanctioning China as such a move would be rather impractical now, but they need to understand that the people they represent are not okay with what is happening so that, at the very least, they start pushing back and stop making new deals with China like the EU-China deal that Germany rammed through on it's neo-empire[1].
If the West does not take action on China soon it will be too late, if it is not already too late, and it is pathetic that Germany, a country that should know what "never again" means more than any other country, can't find a backbone and stand up against a genocidal tyrannical state like China. Germany should be ashamed of itself.
TBF it isn't Germany that lacks a backbone but rather the entirety of the EU. Even if Germany wanted to make a statement I don't think they would risk dragging eastern EU members into a spat since they are already busy buddying up to China.
Someone has to get off the porch first. My bet is on one of the eastern EU members saying "screw it, we're already poor" and then the big players using that as their excuse.
I would say that it's already too late. Way too late. And if the US won't stop it's infighting soon enough pretty soon there will be only one super power left.
> This is a giant fuck-you to the West, and it’ll work, because the West has zero leverage.
They won't work to fix Myanmar, but at some point the West has to ask itself if trade with China is worth it, for the future of both the West and all other countries that are not already in the grasp of China.
My opinion is that anyone who have political representation in the west (i.e. congressional representative, member of parliment, etc) should be calling and writing to them and demanding that they sanction China to the fullest extent.
I think there are plenty of reasons to sanction China, and maybe your political representatives won't actually push for sanctioning China as such a move would be rather impractical now, but they need to understand that the people they represent are not okay with what is happening so that, at the very least, they start pushing back and stop making new deals with China like the EU-China deal that Germany rammed through on it's neo-empire[1].
If the West does not take action on China soon it will be too late, if it is not already too late, and it is pathetic that Germany, a country that should know what "never again" means more than any other country, can't find a backbone and stand up against a genocidal tyrannical state like China. Germany should be ashamed of itself.
[1]: https://www.politico.eu/article/germanys-drive-for-eu-china-...