There is already massive outage in a large part of the democratic world about the pursuit of Julian Assange as you can read also here on Lemmy, but I’m wondering whether you’ll ever be tired of stuff like this.
how can she condemn China while forging closer ties with Beijing
Bottom line, she shouldn’t. A country which executes political dissidents is not one we should be forging closer ties with. But unfortunately our politicians put money ahead of human rights, and always will.
They are manufacturing elsewhere, but not because of moral reasons. China was the world's factory, but their birth rate is declining significantly reducing labor supply, the remaining workers are demanding higher pay and better jobs than assembly lines. This means they are not the cheapest place to manufacture like they used to be and much manufacturing is moving to cheaper places like Vietnam, Cambodia, Bangladesh, etc.
Same reason American sanctions have crushed Cuba for decades for the crime of being communist, while America does incomprehensible volumes of trade with China.
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