China demands an end to US sanctions against Syria following the deadly earthquakes

[Stranagor]

Syrian Sanctions Regulations

Article 4. AUTHORIZED OR EXEMPT TRANSACTIONS EXEMPT TRANSACTIONS

Certain types of activities and transactions may be exempt from the prohibitions of the SSR and the Executive orders. For example, nothing in sections 1 and 2 of E.O. 13582 prohibits transactions for the conduct of the official business of the Federal Government by employees, grantees, or contractors thereof.

GENERAL LICENSES

Certain types of activities and transactions which would otherwise be prohibited with respect to Syria have been authorized by general licenses, subject to certain conditions and limitations. Those licensed activities and transactions include:

• The exportation and reexportation of items to Syria from the United States. or by U.S. persons to any person, including the Government of Syria, whose property or interests in property are blocked, provided that the Department of Commerce has licensed or otherwise authorized the export of those items;

• Noncommercial, personal remittances to or from Syria or on behalf of individuals ordinarily resident in Syria, as long as the transfer is not by, to, or through the Government of Syria or any other person whose property and interests in property are blocked;

• Transactions related to U.S. persons residing in Syria;

• The export and reexport of services in support of humanitarian and other not-for-profit activities in Syria by U.S. and third-country non-governmental organizations; and

• Certain transactions related to intellectual property protection.

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/sanctions-programs-and-country-information/syria-sanctions

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But, even under sanctions, governments are able to provide humanitarian assistance to Syria.

Some people simply politicize them to score public diplomacy points. Sanctions are bad for the Syrian people and wrong. But, using Syrian people's plight for selfish interests as propaganda points is equally wrong.

 

[VCheng]

Not with imposed sanction illegally. They only hurts the citizens furthermore and less so with the authority figure in-charge.

The authority figure in charge in Syria is the root problem. Please direct your anger there, where it rightfully belongs, and not at those who do not help him perpetuate his tyranny over his own people.

 

[Salman Jatoi]

No. A dictator belongs in jail. Or dead. Whichever is easier.

Why US is fond of Al Saud or UAE dictators or Qatari ones because they toe to your line ?

 

[Finer]

The authority figure in charge in Syria is the root problem. Please direct your anger there, where it rightfully belongs, and not at those who do not help him perpetuate his tyranny over his own people.

Again, you are speaking out of turns and on the behalf on citizens of Syria that have nothing to do with your nor you have anything with them. It is none of your business. It is between them and them alone.

That doesn't give USA the right the monopoly to starve the nation to death.

You can't say you care about the citizens while starve them to death. You are the root of problem if you are starving them to death with economic sanction.

 

[That Guy]

Sanctioning an earthquake hit country is crime against humanity.

I mean, not really.

They can maintain sanctions while still providing relief for regular people through (limited) financial, medical, food, or housing aid.

US sanctions just mean that the US refuses to do business ans trade with Syria, or anyone else who does business with Syria.

You're basically asking a sovereign nation to forcibly do business and trade with a nation that considers it an enemy.

 

[etylo]

It's called moral kidnapping and that's how politics works.

In the past, the US asked China to accept refugees from afganistan -> It is moral kidnapping

Currently, China demands an end to US sanctions against Syria following the deadly earthquakes -> it is moral kidnapping.

US does not love Afghanistan and China does not love the Syrians.

They just want to use the problems of these countries to blame and attack the other side.

Double standards and hypocrisy in politics

Go mind your own business. You Vietnamese stop slandering and shitting on China and Chinese all the time to make yourself feel great. The two cant be compared at all, in both cases, its the Americans who created the refugees in Afghan and the humanitarian disasters in Syria, both of the causes of the problems have nothing to do with Chinese, US is the culprit in both cases and therefore should be held responsible.

 

[Abdul Rehman Majeed]

What I like about China is that they Demand.

 

[VCheng]

Again, you are speaking out of turns and on the behalf on citizens of Syria that have nothing to do with your nor you have anything with them. It is none of your business. It is between them and them alone.

That doesn't give USA the right the monopoly to starve the nation to death.

You can't say you care about the citizens while starve them to death. You are the root of problem if you are starving them to death with economic sanction.

It is you who are out of line here:

USA, like any other sovereign nation, has the right to refuse to do business with any other state that it regards as hostile, and refuse to do business with any other state that chooses to do business with its enemy states. USA is not the only source of food in the world. If states friendly to Syria, like Iran, Russia and China, want to send food or any other aid to Syria, they have the right to do that business, and be responsible for the pros and cons of their decisions. That is all.

It is the height of stupidity to expect USA to help any enemy state that wishes to do it harm.

If you have any problems with any of the above, please grow up.

 

[That Guy]

It's called moral kidnapping and that's how politics works.

In the past, the US asked China to accept refugees from afganistan -> It is moral kidnapping

Currently, China demands an end to US sanctions against Syria following the deadly earthquakes -> it is moral kidnapping.

US does not love Afghanistan and China does not love the Syrians.

They just want to use the problems of these countries to blame and attack the other side.

Double standards and hypocrisy in politics

What a good descriptive term. I'll be sure to remember that.

 

[Finer]

It is you who are out of line here:

USA, like any other sovereign nation, has the right to refuse to do business with any other state that it regards as hostile, and refuse to do business with any other state that chooses to do business with its enemy states. USA is not the only source of food in the world. If states friendly to Syria, like Iran, Russia and China, want to send food or any other aid to Syria, they have the right to do that business, and be responsible for the pros and cons of their decisions. That is all.

It is the height of stupidity to expect USA to help any enemy state that wishes to do it harm.

If you have any problems with any of the above, please grow up.

There is different between not doing business and illegally imposing sanction on the nation to bankrupt them to death just because you don't like person in-charge given your lack of concern for civilians being starved to death is concerning alright and quite frankly, it is very disturbing given it is none of your business in the first place is now starving them to death on the top of the recent earthquake.

 

[beijingwalker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrpaYVztM18

Syrians die, sanctions still alive - Facts Tell​

 

[Stranagor]

However, China propagates too much about its humanitarian aid and attacks the US and the West in this regard, it is counterproductive.

Some claimed the Party had begun to tame the off-the-hook wolf warriors and recalibrate diplomatic discourse and reaction. And seriously tone down the abject propaganda and cheap politization.

Yet, it seems old habits die hard. It's amazing that the blow back cannot be realized.

 

[etylo]

Some claimed the Party had begun to tame the off-the-hook wolf warriors and recalibrate diplomatic discourse and reaction. And seriously tone down the abject propaganda and cheap politization.

Yet, it seems old habits die hard. It's amazing that the blow back cannot be realized.

There are no wolf warriors in Chinese diplomacy whatsever. Chinese diplomats are just speaking out rightfully to defend Chinese national interests and the West is just using wolf warriors term to sensationalize and frame the "unjustified" aggressive nature of Chinese diplomacy and therefore to drive the West to hate China more and wants Chinas concessions in dealings with the West.

 

[beijingwalker]

Syria, libya, Iraq all used to be fairly wealthy countries, then US came, bringing hell to those nations, bombing them back to stone age, resulting in millions of civilian deaths, tens of millions displaced, causing catastrophic refugee crisis never seen in the human history.

 

[Zsari]

Some claimed the Party had begun to tame the off-the-hook wolf warriors and recalibrate diplomatic discourse and reaction. And seriously tone down the abject propaganda and cheap politization.

Yet, it seems old habits die hard. It's amazing that the blow back cannot be realized.

Silence and deference would only be taken as weakness. The current hostility between China and the West has nothing to do with the so call wolf warriors but rather a reflection of a stronger China that threatens global dominance of the west. A weak China regardless of its diplomatic posture would never garner the same attention and hostility.