• sandwich.make(bathing_in_bismuth)@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    Its not suicide if you die from defacto slave labor to create cheap products. Since this strategy of state-subsidised factories, normally operating a massive net loss, being employed to undermine economies around the world in exchange for dependence on China, a workers suicide could be ruled a MIA since its economic warfare. Not suicide.

    ~ The Chinese government, probably

    • IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 days ago

      Yall just be saying stuff huh? Do you have a single piece of evidence of “defacto slave labor” in China? Because i can show you plenty of evidence of the US using defacto slave labor in their prisons. Meanwhile China has lifted 800 million people OUT of extreme poverty. Their living conditions continue to rise. Sounds to me like your just mad that China is out competeing you in the marketplace of ideas. LOL

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      The PRC has outlawed slave labor, and purchasing Power in 2022 was 25 times higher than 1978. It’s time for you to turn off Fox News.

      Further, China is “undermining” western, imperialist economies, but is actively engaged in multilateralism in the global south. They gain influence because their involvement actually develops the global south, rather than relying on an extractionary form of economy like the US and Europe do.