Mar 19, 2021 09:37 AM
https://reaction.life/johnson-and-biden-...uman-cost/
EXCERPTS: . . . Boris Johnson touted Britain’s decision to sanction Myanmar’s generals as exemplary of the government’s intention to have international relations reflect national ‘values’, and continue the UK’s ‘historic mission as a force for good’. The Prime Minister then expressed ‘unique concern’ over China’s imprisonment of Uyghur Muslims, before paradoxically pledging to pursue ‘a positive trade and investment relationship’.
[...] Though the Prime Minister stated the United States will be Britain’s ‘greatest ally’ in this fudge to make trade seem ethical in the Indo-Pacific, President Biden has been reluctant to put China under any pressure for its ethnic cleansing campaigns. During a recent CNN Town Hall, Biden refused to ‘speak out against’ what President Xi is ‘doing in Hong Kong,’ ‘with the Uyghurs in western mountains of China,’ and his ‘forceful’ assimilation of Taiwan.
This is an astounding statement given his predecessor, President Trump, designated China’s programme of Uyghur persecution a genocide. To Biden, this systematic eradication of a minority ethnicity is merely a ‘cultural difference’.
This permission—and even encouragement—of human rights abuses is reflected in the President’s policies. Under Biden, the US government has reinstated the eligibility of the Wuhan Institute of Virology—suspected source of COVID-19—to receive taxpayer funding (via the non-profit EcoHealth Alliance).
President Biden also suspended his predecessor’s order prohibiting designated foreign adversaries to the US from investing in the energy grid. This policy reverts America to importing transformers produced by China: a nation unashamed of enforcing labour conditions so inhuman they drive employees to suicide.
International industry is equally guilty. Despite their recent trend of ‘speaking out’ on social issues, America’s corporations like Apple, Nike, and Coca-Cola exhibited similar moral shortcomings by recently lobbying against a bill prohibiting goods production using slave labour in the Xinjiang region.
Disney recently thanked Xinjiang’s security forces for their assistance in filming the Mulan remake. The NBA was revealed to have had training camps in Xinjiang after the slogan ‘free Hong Kong’ was banned from custom-ordered jerseys (while ‘burn Jews’ was inexplicably permitted).
Any signal of solidarity by these companies with oppressed peoples from here on out should be regarded with bitter cynicism... (MORE - details)
EXCERPTS: . . . Boris Johnson touted Britain’s decision to sanction Myanmar’s generals as exemplary of the government’s intention to have international relations reflect national ‘values’, and continue the UK’s ‘historic mission as a force for good’. The Prime Minister then expressed ‘unique concern’ over China’s imprisonment of Uyghur Muslims, before paradoxically pledging to pursue ‘a positive trade and investment relationship’.
[...] Though the Prime Minister stated the United States will be Britain’s ‘greatest ally’ in this fudge to make trade seem ethical in the Indo-Pacific, President Biden has been reluctant to put China under any pressure for its ethnic cleansing campaigns. During a recent CNN Town Hall, Biden refused to ‘speak out against’ what President Xi is ‘doing in Hong Kong,’ ‘with the Uyghurs in western mountains of China,’ and his ‘forceful’ assimilation of Taiwan.
This is an astounding statement given his predecessor, President Trump, designated China’s programme of Uyghur persecution a genocide. To Biden, this systematic eradication of a minority ethnicity is merely a ‘cultural difference’.
This permission—and even encouragement—of human rights abuses is reflected in the President’s policies. Under Biden, the US government has reinstated the eligibility of the Wuhan Institute of Virology—suspected source of COVID-19—to receive taxpayer funding (via the non-profit EcoHealth Alliance).
President Biden also suspended his predecessor’s order prohibiting designated foreign adversaries to the US from investing in the energy grid. This policy reverts America to importing transformers produced by China: a nation unashamed of enforcing labour conditions so inhuman they drive employees to suicide.
International industry is equally guilty. Despite their recent trend of ‘speaking out’ on social issues, America’s corporations like Apple, Nike, and Coca-Cola exhibited similar moral shortcomings by recently lobbying against a bill prohibiting goods production using slave labour in the Xinjiang region.
Disney recently thanked Xinjiang’s security forces for their assistance in filming the Mulan remake. The NBA was revealed to have had training camps in Xinjiang after the slogan ‘free Hong Kong’ was banned from custom-ordered jerseys (while ‘burn Jews’ was inexplicably permitted).
Any signal of solidarity by these companies with oppressed peoples from here on out should be regarded with bitter cynicism... (MORE - details)