The thing is if China doesn’t see it as a problem, then don’t complain that it’s hurting the Chinese people like how they tell the US’s chip embargo is hurting China. All that does is encourage it more because China admits it’s working. It’s like there’s a naïveté that because one says it’s hurting, people are supposed to work to make it not hurt.
When I was actively taking part in the dispute with San Francisco’s Chinatown by animal rights activists for selling live animals for food when they had no problem with other communities doing it, all Chinatown’s community leader, Rose Pak, did was cry it was Chinese culture like that was an argument in defense. To animal rights groups it was cruelty to animals so they didn’t care if it was Chinese culture. All Rose Pak did was confirm to the racists Chinese were cruel. I wrote an editorial for the small English language Asian newspaper that these racist animal rights activists especially their leader were using to communicate with the Chinese community of their displeasure. I didn’t cry about how it’s Chinese culture. I spelled it out plainly and directly why the animal rights activists were racists. I got a lot of racist responses and even a death threat that the newspaper had to inform me about. The animal rights activists ignored my arguments until the city’s main newspaper the San Francisco Chronicle went directly to the leader of the activists and was asked to answer my arguments. When that happened the leader admitted that he was told by the Democratic establishment of San Francisco to only target Chinatown because he would get no support if he tried to include the entire city. After he admitted that, the proposition to make it a law fell apart.
I did that all by myself and got instant results. Kumbaya tactics don’t work.
