China is helping Russia evade Western sanctions and likely providing Moscow with military and dual-use technology for use in Ukraine, according to an unclassified U.S. intelligence report released on Thursday.
  • vegai@suppo.fiEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    We need to ostracize China in the same way as Russia, unfortunately. This is too bad because without this underhanded alliance between China and Russia, I would be kinda okay with China. Yeah, they’re not perfect, but at least they’re not Russia.

    • kd637_mi@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Hard to do when western nations like the US and Aus have built a system that ties China into their trade and manufacturing chains.

      • vegai@suppo.fiEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Yup. Untangling China will/would be much more difficult than dropping Russia was. The latter happened in a year, and with mostly positive ramifications. None of the scare scenarios that tankies talked about a year ago actually happened. We were supposed to get rid of using fossil fuels anyway.

        Getting rid of Chinese products would lead to some positive outcomes – less unemployment in Europe being the most obvious one. But it’s an entirely different scale. Russia exported pretty much just alt-right political influence and gasoline. We’ll happily do without either. China has been the leading producers of a lot of important low and high tech for a lot of time.