Sunday, October 18, 2020
China warns U.S. it may detain Americans in response to prosecutions of Chinese Scholars
The Chinese government is having some conflicts with US. The American justice department’s prosecution of Chinese military-affiliated scholars has caused the Chinese officials to issue warnings to the US government repeatedly to tell them that they should drop the prosecutions of the Chinese scholars otherwise, they will treat all Americans inside China as criminals. Even though bad relations between these countries will affect both, it would affect the US even more. The reason is because China leads the world by exports and the US imports from China are about 21.2% overall which is a huge amount of imports that the US would be dropping if they get bad relations with the Chinese government.
The US government knows and fears that when that day does come when China stops trading with the US, it would affect the US GDP by a huge sum. The country is already in a lot of trouble regarding its wealth as it is being drowned by its own debt. If the imports from China are stopped, it would cause a downfall in technology as well as consumer spending because most of the demand of people are Chinese goods. The biggest categories of US imports from China are computers, cell phones, apparel, toys and sporting goods. A lot of these very same imports are from US manufacturers that send raw materials to China for low-cost assembly which now would take up more money due to the increased wage of labor in the US.
Do you think it is smart of the US government to prosecute the Chinese scholars? Why and why not?
Cited:
O&Rsquo;Keeffe, K. (2020, October 17). China Warns U.S. It May Detain Americans in Response to Prosecutions of Chinese Scholars. WSJ. https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-warns-u-s-it-may-detain-americans-in-response-to-prosecutions-of-chinese-scholars-11602960959
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While it is smart for state-run agencies in the US to distance themselves from Chinese-state run agencies here in America, I do not think we would have any reason to actively persecute Chinese Scholars. It also should be noted that this threat from China can be very real, as seen by their active imprisonment and persecution of various ethnic groups in western China.
ReplyDeleteIt is very true that China does not wait to execute it's methods. I believe this threat is more of a financial issue for US than a political one. Yes, to be humane, we must think about this problem as a problem that puts American lives in China, in danger, but at the same time, we must also be calculative in terms of financial withdrawals that would take place towards US causing a huge downfall of GDP.
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