• starik@lemmy.zip
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    9 hours ago

    Good policy for bad (or at least not principled) reasons. It’s for money. They consider Israel “high risk” because of the war. China doesn’t give a shit about human rights. They send their own Muslims to concentration camps.

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      8 hours ago

      True. It’s a state. I can’t think of a time a state did something for purely altruistic reasons.

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      7 hours ago

      It’s also to say they have principles. It’s hard for the USA or Europe to criticize their human rights abuses while continuing to support Israel. It’s a way to highlight western hypocrisy while avoiding risk. Remember they still invest into other high risk countries. High risk can lead to high reward.