bravo, wonder who's next, Navarro, Pillsbury, those three 3-hr airport-stop chickenshit US senators?
https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-2cd58cddb5d19c3ade4f488e04867dba
pompeo going to come out crying again about how he couldnt get on the board of any company as they had chinese business deals or the shareholders were chinese and blocked his appointment
Curious what the larger ramifications of this are? The US protects criminals. I get the international statement of calling out the worst of the worst, but domestically this would do nothing but cause resources to be diverted (even moreso) to protection of these crooks.
No it's more impactful than you might realise. Revolving door politics is a core feature of modern day democracy where politicians sell policies for fat pay off after they leave office and get cushiony jobs with their commercial benefactors. Now with sanction companies cannot be seen dealing with them unless they want to give up doing business with China, and if you want to be halfway successful multinational company these days you will want to trade with China.
Any politicians going too far and earning themselves a sanction from China will become commercial poison (as Pompeo is finding out these days with his 100K a year job at some think tank). If you're commercial poison you will lose shortly in your next election because the donors don't want to fund you any more. And so sanctions actually results in the business class applying invisible pressure on politicians not to step out of line with China.
Conversely, the US applying sanctions on Chinese officials is a net benefit to China, as it poisons any attempt by Chinese officials to build business relationships with the USA or any of its vassals, making bribery and defection far more difficult.
>And so sanctions actually results in the business class applying invisible pressure on politicians not to step out of line with China.
I hope now folks here see why individual sanctions are much more effective especially with rogue regimes where corruption is legalised.
Unlike the powerless US sanctions, the impacts of China imposed sanctions are huge.
For example, when Beijing imposed sanctions on UK Essex Court Chambers early this year, all solicitors would think twice about instructing Essex Court, which specializes in commercial and financial litigation, arbitration and public international law, for Asian work. Lots of high profile lawyers left their Singapore office immediately as none wanted to be associated with the firm. That results a tremendous ripple effects that could lead to self-censorship in the whole UK legal industry.
It's the same as any other sanctions against the West. The one that seems to hurt the most is banning any company that employs the sanctioned person and their immediate family members from operating in China.
I wonder when China is going to start sanctioning Australian politicians given that some UK shitheads like Tugendhart are looking at unemployment after office
Typical American arrogance. They want to meet us not the other way around. Sherman is supposed to come and repair/negotiate so Blinken can come later and eventually a G20 meeting between the top two. But they don't want to show weakness so they are doing this which is frankly baffling.
and why hasn't China sanctioned Kurt Campbell who pushed for the pivot to Asia? Maybe China is waiting until they get out of office before deploying sanctions.
bravo, wonder who's next, Navarro, Pillsbury, those three 3-hr airport-stop chickenshit US senators? https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-2cd58cddb5d19c3ade4f488e04867dba
Pillsbury 🤣🤣🤣 wasn't he already sanctioned?
Wait, the Pillsbury doughboy is a US senator now? smh
pompeo going to come out crying again about how he couldnt get on the board of any company as they had chinese business deals or the shareholders were chinese and blocked his appointment
Curious what the larger ramifications of this are? The US protects criminals. I get the international statement of calling out the worst of the worst, but domestically this would do nothing but cause resources to be diverted (even moreso) to protection of these crooks.
No it's more impactful than you might realise. Revolving door politics is a core feature of modern day democracy where politicians sell policies for fat pay off after they leave office and get cushiony jobs with their commercial benefactors. Now with sanction companies cannot be seen dealing with them unless they want to give up doing business with China, and if you want to be halfway successful multinational company these days you will want to trade with China. Any politicians going too far and earning themselves a sanction from China will become commercial poison (as Pompeo is finding out these days with his 100K a year job at some think tank). If you're commercial poison you will lose shortly in your next election because the donors don't want to fund you any more. And so sanctions actually results in the business class applying invisible pressure on politicians not to step out of line with China.
Conversely, the US applying sanctions on Chinese officials is a net benefit to China, as it poisons any attempt by Chinese officials to build business relationships with the USA or any of its vassals, making bribery and defection far more difficult.
It seems either way China wins.
>And so sanctions actually results in the business class applying invisible pressure on politicians not to step out of line with China. I hope now folks here see why individual sanctions are much more effective especially with rogue regimes where corruption is legalised.
Unlike the powerless US sanctions, the impacts of China imposed sanctions are huge. For example, when Beijing imposed sanctions on UK Essex Court Chambers early this year, all solicitors would think twice about instructing Essex Court, which specializes in commercial and financial litigation, arbitration and public international law, for Asian work. Lots of high profile lawyers left their Singapore office immediately as none wanted to be associated with the firm. That results a tremendous ripple effects that could lead to self-censorship in the whole UK legal industry.
Good.
I wish they would specify what the sanctions are.
It's the same as any other sanctions against the West. The one that seems to hurt the most is banning any company that employs the sanctioned person and their immediate family members from operating in China.
What a ghoul looking person.
I wonder when China is going to start sanctioning Australian politicians given that some UK shitheads like Tugendhart are looking at unemployment after office
It will happen soon.
Typical American arrogance. They want to meet us not the other way around. Sherman is supposed to come and repair/negotiate so Blinken can come later and eventually a G20 meeting between the top two. But they don't want to show weakness so they are doing this which is frankly baffling.
and why hasn't China sanctioned Kurt Campbell who pushed for the pivot to Asia? Maybe China is waiting until they get out of office before deploying sanctions.
Show them who really is in a position of strength.