Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "Is China cozying up to the West once more? | DW News" video.

@pipiqiqi4010 Which part of 'outsourcing' don't you understand? The factories aren't Western-owned. They're in Chinese or Taiwanese ownership. Western companies place orders and the factories fulfil them. If the former were to offer more money, it wouldn't go to the workers. The factory owners would get richer still. The best Western governments could do is impose tariffs on Chinese goods if they're produced by exploited workers. It's a last resort, because China would retaliate with equally damaging obstacles to trade, sparking a trade war. Like I wrote, charity begins at home. You're trying to 'outsource' the problem of raising China's low wages to the Western countries. You're barking up the wrong tree.
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@WingkKong Don't get your hopes up. The US has always prepared for fighting on two fronts -- major conflicts, that is.
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@pipiqiqi4010 Western companies outsource manufacturing for the cheap labour. If they'd raise salaries for Chinese factory workers, it would defeat the purpose. Besides, their not-so-generous competitors would take chunks out of their market share. Charity begins at home. China should work on its internal consumption. That's what the OP was alluding to.
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@pipiqiqi4010 It's capitalism, silly. The CCP has fully embraced it. Direct your grievances to those "Communists".
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The balance is still clearly positive for China. It's getting cheap oil from Russia, for which it pays in yuan. Russia has to spend the yuans on Chinese imports, which makes Russia even more dependent on China. The war in Ukraine is hollowing out the Russian economy, making the country ripe for Chinese neo-colonialism. In the age of colonalism, the Brits called India their jewel in the crown. Russia will be China's neo-colonial jewel.
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@WingkKong Russia hasn't attacked the US. There's neither a casus belli nor a casus foederis. Study on the terms before you respond half-cocked.
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@lvjinbin28 Effectively, China can't export goods to Russia that contain Western parts or intellectual property that appear on the sanctions list. By and large, Chinese exporters have complied. No wonder, because they can't have it both ways. It's either comply, or lose a much, much bigger market. Unlike the Russians, the Chinese have business sense.
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@WingkKong The Americans sure put a lot of serious effort into explaining their actions. In comparison, Putin's excuses for invading are very flimsy indeed. There are the vague accusations of genocide in the Donbas (no proof whatsoever) and NATO expansion (wasn't happening). Weak, very weak.
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