14 Reasons to Boycott Chinese Products
Filed Under Human Rights, China | Posted on April 12, 2008
The following comes from the introduction and table of contents of Jamyang Norbu’s pamphlet, Buying the Dragon’s Teeth: How Your Money Empowers a Cruel and Dangerous Communist Regime in China, and Undermines Labor, Industry and Freedom Worldwide. It’s available online, and worth reading before your next shopping trip to Wal-Mart.
… this anthology of China’s human rights violations and other crimes, presented in memory-convenient précis, is essentially intended as a perspective-restoring tonic. Presented like this in a handy catalogue form it is hoped that the reader will come to grasp the totality of the Beijing regime’s crimes, which in their sheer scale, variety, sophistication, pitilessness, self-serving expediency, profitability and the matter-of-fact calculated deliberation that has engendered them, make the thuggish brutality and murderousness of other authoritarian regimes around the world (yes, even Saddam Hussein’s) seem crude and self-defeating in comparison.
Reasons Not To Buy “MADE IN CHINA” Products
- Products Made in Forced Labor Camps
- Products Manufactured by the Chinese Military
- Products Made by a Disenfranchised Labor Force
- Sweeping Repression of All Religions
- Nationwide Forced Abortions and Sterilizations
- Indiscriminate and Widespread Use of the Death Penalty
- Commercial Harvesting of Transplant Organs of Executed Prisoners
- Routine Torture of Prisoners
- State Psychiatric Persecution of Political Prisoners
- Military Occupation and Cultural Genocide in Tibet
- Draconian Repression in East Turkestan
- World’s Tightest Internet Censorship
- Spread of Nuclear Weapons to Rogue States and Terrorists
- China Does Not Play by the Usual Rules of Business
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