While it is tempting to chase the best “value” for a product, our purchases can end up funding despicable acts on the other side of the world. Tax revenues alone can provide significant support to a regime, but authoritarian governments often have far stronger ties to the exporters from their countries. Knowing this, how many of the behaviours below would be enough for you to choose to boycott a country? Any one of them individually? A grouping of the worst? What if one country committed all of them within the past few years?

Genocide

• China accused of genocide over forced abortions of Uighur Muslim women as escapees reveal widespread sexual torture.

Concentration Camps

• China’s hidden camps – What’s happened to the vanished Uighurs of Xinjiang?

Forced Organ Harvesting

• China is harvesting organs from detainees, tribunal concludes.

World’s Leading Executioner

• China executes more people than rest of world combined, Amnesty report reveals.
• Death penalty in 2019: Facts and figures.

Politicized Judiciary

• Chinese courts convict more than 99.9 per cent of defendants

Threating to Invade Neighboring Countries

• China drops word ‘peaceful’ in latest push for Taiwan ‘reunification’.

Naval Attacks

• Philippines backs Vietnam after China sinks fishing boat.

Political Kidnappings

• The Cruel Fate of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor in China – A firsthand account of what life in Chinese detention is like for a foreigner on politically motivated charges.
• Can the Chinese Be Trusted to Lead Global Institutions? The abduction of Interpol’s president shows that Beijing’s officials will be subordinate to the orders of the Communist Party.
• How murder, kidnappings and miscalculation set off Hong Kong’s revolt

Colonialism

• How China Is Colonizing Africa Using Trade, Aid, and Debt-Trap Diplomacy.

Systemic Discrimination

• China: Covid-19 Discrimination Against Africans – Forced Quarantines, Evictions, Refused Services in Guangzhou.

Supplying Illegal Narcotics

• Coronavirus chokes the drug trade — from Wuhan, through Mexico and onto U.S. streets.

Suppressing Responses to Outbreaks

• Coronavirus: China state secrecy likely caused deadly outbreak to worsen – Knowledge circulated among medical professionals long before official announcements.
• WHO chief says widespread travel bans not needed to beat China virus.

Censorship of Public and Private Conversations

• Here’s a growing list of companies bowing to China censorship pressure.
• Study: WeChat content outside China used for censorship.
• China’s Search for Dissidents Has Now Expanded to Foreign Countries.

Using All Businesses for Intelligence Gathering

• Beijing’s New National Intelligence Law: From Defense to Offense

Illegal Fishing

• Chinese Illegal Fishing Threatens World Waters.

Environmental Destruction

• Smog may be easing, but in parts of China water quality worsens.

Fraud

• China’s angry reaction to court decision on Huawei executive’s extradition case.

Bribing Foreign Leaders (Elite Capture)

• How can the governing classes be so naive about the threats we face?

Violating International Treaties

• Tribunal Rejects Beijing’s Claims in South China Sea.

Supporting Authoritarian Regimes

• China and Russia loaned billions to Venezuela — and then the presidency went up for grabs.

The provided sources vary, but any of the major sites could have provided most or all of the same stories included here. No matter your political stances, you should find a handful of sources you trust to corroborate.