[croes]

They don't need to kick out their embassies, they just need to stop exports for a short period of time. A short stop because of the pandemic had hard consequences but it could be much worse.

The west ignored the human rights situation at the beginning to get cheap labor, cheap resources and to ignore environmental issues and now the west can't simply stop without killing it's econonmy.

[whodunnit]

It’s economic addiction which, like any addiction, is painful to deal with, but it’ll only get worse if left untreated.