middleagedgamer
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When I read about the human rights abuses in China, it feels like I'm reading a dystopian novel, like Nineteen Eighty-Four or somewhat.
But... it's not a novel. Novels are fiction! The human rights abuses in China are really happening!
The United States should impose tariffs on China, not to discourage Americans from importing goods (because it wouldn't apply to other nations, like Canada or France), but to discourage the trading of goods that come from the human rights-abusing China.
To revoke these tariffs, I'm not asking for much. I would be more than happy to support the revocation of these tariffs if just the following three things are met:
1. Genuinely free elections. Currently, the Chinese Constitution requires the government to adhere to the policies of the Communist Party. A single-party system is just as bad, politically, as a monopoly is bad, economically, and for the exact same reasons.
If the people of China actually want these totalitarian laws, then let the people speak for themselves. Give them free elections. Give them the opportunity to say no, and then, if they consciously choose not to say no, I will consent.
2. An independent media, owned by at least two different companies. The Chinese government owns - they don't just use totalitarian laws to control: They own, in the traditional sense - the nation's largest media conglomerate. This is the epitome of putting the fox in charge of the hen house. The people are shielded from ideas that might differ from those of the Communist Party. Turn the media over to the private sector, and give it to at least two (maybe more) privately-owned companies, so as to prevent a monopoly. These companies don't have to be American; heck, they can be Chinese for all I care! Just as long as they're private, and not controlled by totalitarian laws.
3. A truly independent committee for declaring laws unconstitutional. China allegedly has a body that is supposed to declare laws unconstitutional, but this is a puppet committee that is at the whim of the People's National Congress. I want a truly independent committee that, like the U.S. Supreme Court, is entitled to serve a life tenure, unless they break the law, and definitely not because the People's National Congress disagrees with their rulings. It doesn't have to be a "court," per se, so long as it's truly independent of undue PRC influence.
Follow these simple guidelines, and, you too, can keep from getting tariffs induced against under this new policy! A lot of the Middle East nations would probably avoid this tariff because, even though they abuse human rights (such as women's rights and gay rights), at least they have genuinely free elections, privately-owned media, and a separate body for hearing the constitutionality of laws. Most of the time, once a country does these three things, the remainder of human rights just falls into place.
These tariffs that I support would only be designed to encourage these three things to be done. Nothing more, nothing less. I don't think they're all that radical, because the revocation of them come with modest requests.
Thoughts?
But... it's not a novel. Novels are fiction! The human rights abuses in China are really happening!
The United States should impose tariffs on China, not to discourage Americans from importing goods (because it wouldn't apply to other nations, like Canada or France), but to discourage the trading of goods that come from the human rights-abusing China.
To revoke these tariffs, I'm not asking for much. I would be more than happy to support the revocation of these tariffs if just the following three things are met:
1. Genuinely free elections. Currently, the Chinese Constitution requires the government to adhere to the policies of the Communist Party. A single-party system is just as bad, politically, as a monopoly is bad, economically, and for the exact same reasons.
If the people of China actually want these totalitarian laws, then let the people speak for themselves. Give them free elections. Give them the opportunity to say no, and then, if they consciously choose not to say no, I will consent.
2. An independent media, owned by at least two different companies. The Chinese government owns - they don't just use totalitarian laws to control: They own, in the traditional sense - the nation's largest media conglomerate. This is the epitome of putting the fox in charge of the hen house. The people are shielded from ideas that might differ from those of the Communist Party. Turn the media over to the private sector, and give it to at least two (maybe more) privately-owned companies, so as to prevent a monopoly. These companies don't have to be American; heck, they can be Chinese for all I care! Just as long as they're private, and not controlled by totalitarian laws.
3. A truly independent committee for declaring laws unconstitutional. China allegedly has a body that is supposed to declare laws unconstitutional, but this is a puppet committee that is at the whim of the People's National Congress. I want a truly independent committee that, like the U.S. Supreme Court, is entitled to serve a life tenure, unless they break the law, and definitely not because the People's National Congress disagrees with their rulings. It doesn't have to be a "court," per se, so long as it's truly independent of undue PRC influence.
Follow these simple guidelines, and, you too, can keep from getting tariffs induced against under this new policy! A lot of the Middle East nations would probably avoid this tariff because, even though they abuse human rights (such as women's rights and gay rights), at least they have genuinely free elections, privately-owned media, and a separate body for hearing the constitutionality of laws. Most of the time, once a country does these three things, the remainder of human rights just falls into place.
These tariffs that I support would only be designed to encourage these three things to be done. Nothing more, nothing less. I don't think they're all that radical, because the revocation of them come with modest requests.
Thoughts?