From: Wei Dai (weidai@eskimo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 17:11:59 MDT
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:28:24PM -0500, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> Slave labor. As long a China tolerates slavery, the U.S. should
> not be trading with them. I don't buy that cultural relativist
> nonsense--slavery is wrong, always has been wrong, and always will
> be wrong, and must not be supported or tolerated.
By "slave labor" do you mean prison labor (laogai), people who
voluntarily work for what we consider very low wages, abducting and
selling of women into forced marriages, or something else?
Please explain how buying a product made in China constitutes support or
tolerance for slave labor. I've always felt good about buying products
made in China, thinking that it would help stimulate economic and
political development which will eventually ameliorate the above problems.
If you're saying that increased trade actually hurts China I would
certainly like to know why.
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