Mind you, I was focusing on Xinjiang and the sanctions on companies and governmental bodies in the region, and as far as i know China is not a country with a inability to feed their people like North Korea. Therefore, the choice isn't free people starving or enslaved people being fed, its about a minority being suppressed and forced to conform and treated to appalling abuses by their government. My opposition in my recent posts is not relating to North Korean sanctions specifically but the assertion by samoyed that all sanctions are bad and should be rescinded.
Has sanctions changed anything in Xinjiang? Have they changed anything ever?
China managed to flourish despite US sanctions. The US went running back to China once corporations realized it was more profitable.
No one imposing sanctions cares about the morality of slavery when money is involved. No country where widespread sanctions were placed has "fixed" their behavior, which sometimes was human rights but more often than not just a difference in political system (anti-Communism, really). The moment it became economically profitable to ditch mass sanctions...