Monday, March 17, 2008

Because it worked so well before

A conservative "thinker" seemingly suggests a Chinese embargo in order to bring freedom to China. At least that's how I read this:
If the world wants to change China’s behavior, they [sic] can start by locking them [sic] out of economic markets.

Counter-arguments:

1) The Cuban one hasn't worked, and some people who publically support the embargo know that it hasn't.

2) China was largely closed off before, albeit not completely locked out. How free did it become? This free, and this free.

3) Last, but certainly not least, what he is suggesting is that in order to bring freedom to China, everyone else must sacrifice some freedom.

Tell you what, you lock China out of your economic market and leave the rest of us free to do as we wish.

UPDATE: Self link! Funny how he hasn't mentioned that again lately.

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