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@robert_spalding The CCP factions are real. I spent 10+ years living their. The mess we unleashed on the world is of the West’s own making. We did not spend the time to understand the Chinese people, their culture or their government. Most still do not, bother. But now they are transformed.
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@robert_spalding Our own greed unleashed by naked capitalism devoid of National loyalty or sovereignty. Refusal to enforce the Law of the Sea, human rights conventions, or WTO. Refusal to intervene when they stole our IP or bought strategic technologies.
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@robert_spalding We looked the other way when Al Gore accepted an illegal bag of cash on a windswept hill in California, we barely reacted to repeated hacking of our systems, we forced Yahoo and Cisco to accept a pittance for their IP stolen by Alibaba and Huawei.
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@robert_spalding Instead of forcing divestiture like we did with South African human rights violations, we encouraged our companies to rush in to make more money. When they destroyed Tibetan temples, we did not care. When they harvested organs from live prisoners we fussed but did nothing.
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@robert_spalding When they traffic young girls kidnapped across SE Asia for wives, slaves and prostitutes we don’t pay attention. When they destroy a culture of an ancient people in Xinjiang we talk quietly in corners. When they punish Australia for speaking out we do nothing for our friend.
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@robert_spalding When they bulldoze Christian churches and arrest Falun Gong, what do we do? When did we decide it was ok to partner with such a place? We continue to subsidize their economy, we continue to do almost nothing about flagrant human rights abuses. We continue to pretend.
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@robert_spalding We pretend we care, we pretend we stand for something, in the meantime do nothing about Chinese agents operating in the US. We think it is Ok if the leader of the House, the Senate minority leader and the President’s family are compromised. We act like nothing is wrong.
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@robert_spalding Our MSM takes their blood money, our schools support on campus indoctrination centers. They take HK, they grab the most important shipping lanes in the world, and prepare to invade Taiwan. But what do we do?
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@robert_spalding Europe signs a trade and investment deal, our tech companies build repression technology for them, our investment bankers make billions, and out political elites prepare to return to normal. Our principals and assets are being sold off.
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@robert_spalding There are lots of good Chinese people, their culture has a rich history, but they are trapped in the Middle Ages by the CCP. If you are not shouting; you are asleep, supporting inhumanity at impossible scale or think it will not affect you. Wrong, it closes in now.
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