<story><title>China warned others not to attend UN meeting on Xinjiang human rights violations</title><url>https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/04/01/china-warned-countries-not-attend-un-meeting-xinjiang-human-rights-violations/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonh</author><text>I really do appreciate the sentiment, but with an authoritarian regime like this there&amp;#x27;s isn&amp;#x27;t an awful lot other nations can practically do that would actually make a difference. Just look at North Korea, it&amp;#x27;s under total economic lock-down but still continues along on it&amp;#x27;s brutally oppressive way. It&amp;#x27;s not that I&amp;#x27;m happy about it, any suggestions welcome.</text></item><item><author>oxycontinOD</author><text>A painful but important reminder about Lu Guang, a photojournalist captured by the goverment for taking photos of the damage suffered by countryman (and nature) due pollution from chinese factories: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;gallery&amp;#x2F;XwzByK7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;gallery&amp;#x2F;XwzByK7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something needs to be done, I&amp;#x27;m not sure what but inaction will only aggravate the situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>Isolation doesn’t work (as you point out with NK).&lt;p&gt;Integration also doesn’t seem to be working (well, not nearly as fast as those in the Nixon era and since then hypothesized).&lt;p&gt;My view is that isolation is a worse route, because mostly the poor suffer from economic isolation.&lt;p&gt;I really like the strategy of targeting the powerful politicians&amp;#x2F;rich benefactors using tools like the magnitsky act. Those people shouldn’t have the privledge of traveling to western countries.</text></comment>
<story><title>China warned others not to attend UN meeting on Xinjiang human rights violations</title><url>https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/04/01/china-warned-countries-not-attend-un-meeting-xinjiang-human-rights-violations/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simonh</author><text>I really do appreciate the sentiment, but with an authoritarian regime like this there&amp;#x27;s isn&amp;#x27;t an awful lot other nations can practically do that would actually make a difference. Just look at North Korea, it&amp;#x27;s under total economic lock-down but still continues along on it&amp;#x27;s brutally oppressive way. It&amp;#x27;s not that I&amp;#x27;m happy about it, any suggestions welcome.</text></item><item><author>oxycontinOD</author><text>A painful but important reminder about Lu Guang, a photojournalist captured by the goverment for taking photos of the damage suffered by countryman (and nature) due pollution from chinese factories: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;gallery&amp;#x2F;XwzByK7&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;gallery&amp;#x2F;XwzByK7&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something needs to be done, I&amp;#x27;m not sure what but inaction will only aggravate the situation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>megous</author><text>We can&amp;#x27;t possibly know. Different countries have different cultures and histories. It might also be that resulting slump in economic output would incite revolts.</text></comment>