• Alaknár@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      96·
      6 days ago

      Ideally, you’d boycott Chinese products too.

      I mean, I’m fully aware that “everything is made in China”, but - to me - there’s a difference in supporting a [somewhere]-based company that pays taxes [somewhere] and purchases components/manufactures in China (sending part of my money there), and buying full-on Chinese, and having 100% of my money support a genocidal government.

      • Billegh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        6 days ago

        Your point is valid, but non-genocidal governments are getting harder to find any more.

              • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
                21·
                5 days ago

                Alright so we’ll just go ahead and mark you down for “indifferent to Uyghur persecution”.

                Also, the treatment of Uyghurs meets the definition for genocide. Please read the article.

                Those accusing China of genocide point to intentional acts they say violate Article II of the Genocide Convention,[22][23][24] which prohibits “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part,” a “racial or religious group” including “causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group” and “measures intended to prevent births within the group”.[

                  • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    1·
                    4 days ago

                    My bad. I wasn’t aware that real genocides are decided by “respected human rights organizations”, otherwise it’s just a sparkling extermination program. Are you fucking serious right now?

          • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
            33·
            5 days ago

            No genocides recently, just massacring millions of their own civilians for having a different belief.

                • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  4 days ago

                  I am sure China has committed genocides in the past but I am also not putting Japan on the genocide list because the rape of Nanking. The only event people keep bringing up regarding China is the Tiannenmen Square riots where less than a thousand people were killed. And even accepting all Western narratives that was certainly not a targeted extermination of a certain population but it would be political repression.

                  We are talking about active genocides. People need to stop devalueing the word genocide.

                  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
                    11·
                    4 days ago

                    I never said genocide I was just pointing out that they’ve done a bit more than just authoritarianism and repression. Tiannenmen square is a blip on the CCP massacres.

      • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        6 days ago

        I buy from where is cheaper. I’d buy in Taobao if I could but I don’t know how it works, so, temu and AliExpress for me.

        Besides their packages almost never get stolen by customs in my country, unlike amazon’s

    • tacosplease@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      The sellers on AliExpress have to pay duty now. Granted, they probably declare far less than true value, but the tariffs already made prices on AliExpress increase. You just don’t notice it because it’s rolled into the sale price or added to taxes and shipping.

      Most things I shop for on AE are around 20% higher than they were before the tariffs started and de minimis was removed. I suspect sellers were shipping from China to other countries and then to US so the tariffs wouldn’t be so harsh. Now that we seem to be removing the de minimis exception from other countries, that work around could end - leading to additional price increases.